![]() ![]() Goats and Soda Syrian Teen's 9-Minute Doc Hits Cannes, Sundance, L.A. It details Tareq's excruciating journey, leaving behind people and places he loves, almost from the very moment a bomb hits his family's home. The book begins in an unnamed Syrian city with a teenage boy, Tareq, surrounded by his bustling, tight-knit family. Abawi researches her fiction like a journalist, interviewing real people, traveling to refugee camps and poring over shocking photographs. And the story behind her latest book, A Land Of Permanent Goodbyes, is drawn from a global crisis that's been dominating headlines the last few years: Refugees fleeing the war in Syria. ![]() ![]() The people struggling in her novels are young - she writes for teens. "To give insight in a way that I couldn't as a journalist, to give the full story, a depth that the reader could take in and find a way to empathize more with the people who are struggling." ![]() "It was a way for me as a journalist to go beyond those 700 words or that two-minute clip," she says. Increasingly though, Abawi has turned to fiction. She's made a career in news covering Iraq and Afghanistan - the latter being the country her own family fled in the early 1980s. How?Ītia Abawi is used to looking at war through the eyes of a journalist. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Land of Permanent Goodbyes Author Atia Abawi ![]()
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