Ebook {Epub PDF} Homes: A Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Abu Bakr al Rabeeah lives in Edmonton, Canada. Homes: A Refugee Story. was on CBC's Canada Reads and was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. Winnie has been an English teacher for over ten years. Homes is her first book and received extensive critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for the Governor General's /5(). Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, –, author Homes: a refugee story / Abu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN (softcover). ISBN (epub). ISBN (pdf) 1. al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr, –. 2. Homes is the remarkable true story of how a young boy emerged from a war zone ― and found safety in Canada ― with a passion for sharing his story and telling the world what is truly happening in Syria. As told to her by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, writer Winnie Yeung has crafted a heartbreaking, hopeful, and urgently necessary book that provides a.

I found Homes to be especially powerful, perhaps because the story is told from the perspective of the boy who lived it. In , because of religious discrimination, Abu Bakr and his family (including 7 other children) moved from Iraq to Homs, Syria in hopes of a safer life. Abu Bakr al Rabeeah is a high school student who co-authored Homes: A Refugee Story with English language arts teacher Winnie www.doorway.ru was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, a Governor General's Literary Award in nonfiction, and CBC's Canada Reads in It was also the first Canadian book selected as OverDrive's Big Library Read in April Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah is a Canadian writer, whose memoir Homes: A Refugee Story, cowritten with Winnie Yeung, was published in Originally from Iraq, Al-Rabeeah moved with his family to Homs, Syria in to escape persecution due to their status as minority Sunni Muslims, but were soon forced to move again due to the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War.

In , the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria — just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. HOMES: A REFUGEE STORY by Abu Baker Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung is a charming and warm-hearted book. It is a refugee story like no other. In , the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hopes of a safer life. They moved to Homs, Syria. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was ten years old when the civil war broke out on the streets around him. It’s written by an ESL teacher in Edmonton, based on the stories from her student Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah, a young man who fled Syria with his family once their refugee application was approved.