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We fled over the mountains by foot

Man, 39 years old, West Kurdistan (Iran)

As a result of the political situation in Iran, I decided to flee with my wife and children: We fled over the mountains by foot and it took us around 10 hours to reach Turkey where we went in bus to Izmir, which took us another 30 hours. And from Izmir we got out on the sea in a rubber dinghy that was 6 metres long and we were in total 40 persons on the boat.    Continue reading “We fled over the mountains by foot”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, kurdistan, iran, refugee,
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I have now waited 4 years for the smuggler’s brother

Fouad is 38 years old, Aleppo, Syria.

I had a beautiful life before the war. I was a successful tailor and I had one business in Aleppo and another one in Lebanon where I had several men and women employed, respectively. Life was good and I enjoyed it very much in all its aspects. Continue reading “I have now waited 4 years for the smuggler’s brother”

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I have changed my life completely

Mahad Khudari, 20 years old, originally from Homs, Syria.

I am only 20, but I think I have a unique story with lots of experience. I was born in Homs and went to school there. I studied till the 6th grade, but had to leave school to get married. I got my first baby when I was 14. I got married so early that it took away my sense of happiness in life. Continue reading “I have changed my life completely”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, homs, refugee,
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I wish the Danes to see us people for Syria as hard working people

Alaa Alkoje is 38 years old, from Hama, Syria.

I am from Hama in Syria and I have five children. I came to Denmark in 2015. In Syria, I worked in construction and trade between China, Dubai and Syria. All my life I have been working, because when I was very young, Bashar al-Assad’s father; Hafez al-Assad killed all men in my hometown Hama. He got every man over the age of 16 killed. Approximately 200.000 men.
I started to work with maturing shoes. My father used to make shoes. I did that in the daytime. At night, I got a job in construction. I worked 13-15 hours a day, every day of the week. Continue reading “I wish the Danes to see us people for Syria as hard working people”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, hama, refugee, roskilde,
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Every day I could hear the noise from the bomber

Aiden is 20 years old and from Aleppo, Syria.

I had a good and for a boy-my-age normal life in my city. I lived in an apartment with my family and would go to school. I had two hobbies and one of them is chess and the other one is swimming; back in Syria I took a swimming certificate. I had many friends and would work on my computer, which is something that I like a lot and also would like to work with sometime in the future. Two careers I have in my mind and would like to explore are soft engineering and data science.   Continue reading “Every day I could hear the noise from the bomber”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: A million stories, denmark, syria, aleppo, copenhagen, refugee,
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I started to build my network

Manal Tahhan is originally from Damascus, Syria.

I escaped from Syria because my life was threatened there. Before, I lived outside of Damascus. The area was controlled by the army, so I escaped from there to Damascus with my three kids. After that I found a job in the ministry of justice. I worked there as a secretary. After three years from the war, I started to arrange my life in Damascus. It’s no problem. I sent my kids to school. After three years there was a treaty between the Assad-army and the other army, the Isis-army. Continue reading “I started to build my network”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, damascus, refugee,
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Before 90 % of the Danes liked refugees, now 90 % dislike us

Muheildin, 31 years old, Afrin, Syria.

I lived with my family in Afrin, and from there I would go and work in Lebanon for 3 or 4 months at a time as a tiler and then go back and spend some time in the house of my family: I am Kurdish and Kurds historically have had problems in Syria, not a lot of problems, but enough… Continue reading “Before 90 % of the Danes liked refugees, now 90 % dislike us”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, denmark, syria, refugee, lesbos, red cross,
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Every day when I woke up I felt like this was the last day of my life

Hassan Alsamma is 44 years old and from Ghouta, Syria.

I came to Denmark in 2014. In my country I was an interior designer. I had a lovely life before the war. I owned my own house and was a manager at my job. When the war started, I didn’t expect it to develop into a war. I was sure that after a day or two, everything would go back to normal. Unfortunately the war escalated and we were very afraid. Our apartment was situated next to a military compound from where they were sending rockets. For that reason we were very scared, and decided to leave our home. Continue reading “Every day when I woke up I felt like this was the last day of my life”

Dublin Core: Language: en Subject: a million stories, refugee, denmark, syria, interior designer,