{"id":20263,"date":"2022-06-25T03:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/dalals-story-escape-from-war-to-live-in-peace\/"},"modified":"2022-06-25T03:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T02:03:08","slug":"dalals-story-escape-from-war-to-live-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/dalals-story-escape-from-war-to-live-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalal\u2019s Story \u2013 Escape from War to Live in Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dalal&#8217;s Story &#8211; \u201cEscape from War to Live in Peace\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0a book which tells the story of Dalal&#8217;s journey from Damascus to Waterford as herself and her family were forced to flee when the Syrian civil war escalated in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Dalal tells the story of her difficult and perilous journey from war torn Syria to Cappoquin through Iraq, Turkey and Greece with husband Amer Mohamed and their three children; Nazha (11), Judi (7) and Aziz (5)\u00a0 in the words of Dalal <em>\u201cso people can understand who we are and how difficult our journey was\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Dalal was born in Damascus, Syria and was studying to be a teacher but was unable to finish her final year because of the war which started in 2011. This was the beginning of her journey as a refugee which was dangerous and extremely difficult for herself and her family. This is a story of resilience and of a desire to connect with her new community in Cappoquinn and tell her story: \u201c<em>I wrote this story so people would understand that we had homes and lives in Syria and we didn\u2019t want to leave and come to Ireland, we had no choice.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Copies of Dalal&#8217;s book are available to rent from all Waterford City &amp; County libraries.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20264,"template":"","class_list":["post-20263","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dalal\u2019s Story \u2013 Escape from War to Live in Peace - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dalal&#039;s Story - \u201cEscape from War to Live in Peace\u201d\u00a0a book which tells the story of Dalal&#039;s journey from Damascus to Waterford as herself and her family were forced to flee when the Syrian civil war escalated in 2011.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/dalals-story-escape-from-war-to-live-in-peace\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dalal\u2019s Story \u2013 Escape from War to Live in Peace - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dalal&#8217;s Story &#8211; \u201cEscape from War to Live in Peace\u201d\u00a0a book which tells the story of Dalal&#8217;s journey from Damascus to Waterford as herself and her family were forced to flee when the Syrian civil war escalated in 2011. 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