“The Syrians and the Iraqis are not better than us. All of our neighbors are Syrian. If their kids get sick, they can go to the hospital and receive care. But when we go, they say they aren’t offering treatment to Somalis… We are refugees too.” These are the words of Aisha, a Somali refugee.

“We’re the oldest refugees, we’re the ones who parted the sea.” That is how Idris Idris, an Eritrean refugee living in Amman, describes the history of Eritreans’ displacement to every part of the globe. Idris and other Eritrean refugees are demanding equal treatment by UNHCR in material assistance and in finding durable solutions for them.

Judy Cami was visiting a friend when militants attacked her family home in Kenya, killing everyone present. Upon returning to the scene, Judy fled, knowing only that what had befallen her family was the result of a conflict between Christian militias that included her father due to a financial dispute. Judy fled to her friend’s.

Abdelqassim Khaleel is a refugee from the Sudanese region of Darfur. Khaleel’s personal documents include a Sudanese passport, a UNHCR asylum seeker card and a high-school diploma that is now worthless given that the 29 year old is barred from working or continuing his education in Jordan. Khaleel came to Jordan in 2013, after spending.

Sadia Mahmoud Husni fled her home city of Mogadishu nine years ago with her eldest son Aymen, after losing her mother and son to the violence that had engulfed her country and her sister to starvation. Having left behind two daughters and the rest of her family, Umm Ayman [the mother of Ayman in Arabic].

بقلم خديجة مقابلة هذا هو المعرض الثالث للكتاب المستعمل من تنظيم انكتاب، وقد استقام بثلاثين ألف كتاب تم تجميعها من منطقة الوسط في الأردن، منها ستة آلاف كتاب قدمها أصحابها تبرعًا، وقد جمعت بجهود القائمين على المعرض، عن طريق التواصل مع المتبرعين والذهاب إلى منازلهم، ما قد رفع عدد الكتب لأكثر من الضعف مقارنة بالعالم.