It’s not easy to make a change. If you are like me, the chances are that you are feeling exhausted by all the chaos in the world. Wherever you look, every social media post you see, every news you hear, seems to carry with it bad news. People are suffering everywhere. This amount of human…
“Tear gas, tear gas…close your eyes and get down.” Words uttered by my mother as we reached the Iraqi-Jordanian border while escaping from Kuwait during the first Gulf War. That moment, at the young age of 7, was the first time I had ever seen tears coming down my mother’s face as she screamed helplessly knowing…
Some moments in life change you. To each one of us there is this second, that turn things upside down. The first day at school, the first time we fall in love, the first job we get. Mine, happened when I first went to a field visit with UNHCR. Before joining the team in Beirut,…