Azhar’s story: “For a 12-year-old girl, I felt my future was lost.”
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Azhar, as told to Kate Adelung & Hanan Al-tawil
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March 1, 2023
Azhar was born in Syria – a place she remembers as having “green fields and great people” -- but after she turned seven, Azhar began having trouble. She developed a fear of the near-constant military planes that flew over her neighborhood, and the local militant groups began imposing “strict restrictions, especially in the war area.” One day, Azhar found her neighbors, covered in blood, dead from a bombing.
