Word: shakir
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...You’re cut off from a piece of you that you can never go back to, so it’s really hard," Shakir said...
...That’s their place; that’s their country," Shakir said...
...Imagine going back to the town I grew up in—Los Altos—and to see it completely destroyed: the people to be different, the food to be different. It’s really traumatizing," Shakir said. "I think they’d both go if the opportunity came and it was very safe, but it would not be an easy experience or a vacation by any means...
...Shakir said that her father had difficulty leaving Iraq...
Seeing that the country was going downhill, he escaped in 1974 to Lebanon, Shakir said, hiding in a rolled-up rug in the back of a truck. The doctor has not returned since...