Word: ayah
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...press conference at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City, people like Ayah Bdeir, 23, made clear that while they feel lucky to be alive, their haunting experiences in Lebanon have followed them home. "For the past five days, a feeling of constant guilt [has been] lingering in my subconscious," says Bdeir, who arrived in the U.S. last weekend. Bdeir was raised in Beirut, and left her mother and sisters behind. "I was in Lebanon when the war broke out, and the reason I feel guilty is that I escaped...
...Ayah Bdeir, by contrast, was left to her own devices. She and her sister, both Canadian citizens, attempted to leave together and were advised to evacuate with the Canadian embassy. "We felt a lot of people needed [their help] more than we did," she said. "We heard rumors that 25,000 Canadians were trying to evacuate. So we decided to do it on our own." A taxi driver was willing to take her and her sister to the Syrian border. Ever since the war broke out, he'd been driving people back and forth across the border at least twice...
...thousands of refugees in Lebanon are quickly running out of food, water and electricity. For these four evacuees, it's difficult or impossible to get in touch with loved ones there - which is all they really want to do. Ironically enough, Ayah Bdeir says that, "The last few days I was in Lebanon, all I wanted to do was to get out. Now that I have, all I want to do is go back...
...addition to Abdallah, Shakir and Sarafa, the other students on the recruiting trip were Ayah I. Mahgoub ’07, Ali A. Zaidi ’08, Randall S. Sarafa ’09, Nadia A. Gaber ’09, and May Habib ’07, who is also The Crimson’s Associate Managing Editor...
...novel begins in pre-World War II Ceylon, when the 14-year-old Lakshmi leaves her family and moves to rural Kuantan with her new husband, Ayah. Lakshmi bears six children, and the narrative voice soon jumps from Lakshmi to her children, who paint a divergent and complex portrait of their mother. Daughter Anna recounts how Lakshmi stood up to the Japanese invaders, started a business and hid her earnings, coated with bird droppings, at the top of a palm tree. "The Japanese made us all very resourceful," she relates, "but Mother was an undefeatable force." Sevenese, Lakshmi...