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Home Posts by “Yashar Vasef”

Humanizing Refugees

Yashar Vasef August 17, 2016 Storytelling Blog Leave a Comment

The year that I was 5, an apartment complex on my street in Tehran was bombed in the middle of the night. The blast was so powerful that all the glass in our building was instantly shattered. Up to that point, my entire existence had been spent in a war zone. My parents had a conference upstairs, and vowed to …

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