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It originally aired in February 2017 after President Donald Trump announced his initial travel ban and plans to stop admission of certain refugees. We re-aired the show, with updates, in December. Listen to the full show:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306438245\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man we profiled fled the Syrian civil war with his family, and recently settled in East Oakland. Another fled Vietnam in the wake of the Vietnam War in 1975, and settled in Los Angeles. A third fled the Holocaust in 1945, and settled in Berkeley after surviving nine Nazi concentration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/06/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299887 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his garden in East Oakland. He stands among young figs, lemons, grapes, peas, and loquats. The small side yard pales in comparison to the nearly ten-acre farm the family had in Syria.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his garden in East Oakland. He stands among young figs, lemons, grapes, peas and loquats. The small side yard pales in comparison to the nearly 10-acre farm the family had in Syria. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Syria\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home:\u003c/strong> Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year immigrated: \u003c/strong>2015\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Syrian civil war\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had to show\u003c/a> to get in: \u003c/strong>fingerprints, identification cards, photos, iris scans, medical exams, five background checks, dozens of interviews\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8utHQyS5IDbNF2igAjZJPIROylu0i6Nz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's efforts to limit refugees: \u003c/strong>\"We think the world is closed now to refugees because every country has reached its capacity or is closed. Where are people supposed to go? They will either stay inside [Syria] and die in the war, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea. We were joyful that doors opened for us, but now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: The family has started a Bay Area catering business called Old Damascus Fare, making mostly Syrian dishes. \"We are hoping that the catering business will help us to build a good life in this country,\" says his daughter Batool. \"We want to move past the struggles that come along with being a refugee, and hope to have an easier life.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/04/viet-thanh-nguyen-on-his-timely-collection-the-refugees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viet Thanh Nguyen\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299999 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-800x533.jpg\" alt='Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen signs copies of his new collection of short stories, \"The Refugees.\" Nguyen came to the United States with his family as a refugee from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen signs copies of his new collection of short stories, \"The Refugees.\" Nguyen came to the United States with his family as a refugee from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Viet Thanh Nguyen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Vietnam\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Los Angeles\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1975\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Communist victory in the Vietnam War\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he had to show to get in: \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obviously we didn't have the kinds of documents we would have needed because we were war refugees. People who left in a more organized fashion before the final day of the invasion did have to present passports and visas. But people who were just literally jumping on boats to get out, we didn't have those kinds of documents.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"7GpYy7v8pcQtpXZN4ETEmFYdCZKObo1C\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's efforts to restrict refugees: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I wouldn't want to be in that situation. It's happening to people that their lives have suddenly been utterly disrupted. The Trump administration has said this is simply a temporary disruption, but obviously if it's your life and you've been cut off from your home, your family, your children, your spouse, it's devastating.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: Since we first braodcast this interview, Viet Nguyen was awarded a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-macarthur-fellows-nguyen-20171010-story.html\">Macarthur \"Genius\" award\u003c/a> for his fiction and cultural criticism. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/05/unlikely-roomates-holocaust-survivor-and-granddaughter-of-nazis-share-a-home-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Stern\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299998 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Stern holds up a copy of a newspaper clipping show him and his wife after they came to the United States as Jewish refugees after World War II. Stern survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Stern holds up a copy of a newspaper clipping show him and his wife after they came to the United States as Jewish refugees after World War II. Stern survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Ben Stern\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Poland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Berkeley\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1945\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Holocaust\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he had to show to get in: \u003c/strong>His tattoo from a Nazi concentration camp\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"StxmuMbOy1v903ubZ02BuyhRwNmem4mw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's executive orders: \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We as American people must say not now, not here. The Constitution offers the freedom of speech and religion. We need to help the people when they reach for a handout.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: In August, Ben Stern\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/27/holocaust-survivor-leads-march-in-berkeley/\"> led an anti-racism march\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley. He'll be speaking at a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/free-speech-and-its-limits-unfinished-conversation\">screening\u003c/a> of \"Near Normal Man,\" a documentary about his life, on January 25 in Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With U.S. refugee policy in the global eye, we hear the stories of three Californians who came here as refugees at three very different points in history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1515096378,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":810},"headData":{"title":"Three Refugees, Three Journeys to California | KQED","description":"With U.S. refugee policy in the global eye, we hear the stories of three Californians who came here as refugees at three very different points in history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Three Refugees, Three Journeys to California","datePublished":"2017-12-30T00:30:27.000Z","dateModified":"2018-01-04T20:06:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11299596 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11299596","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/29/three-refugees-three-journeys-to-california/","disqusTitle":"Three Refugees, Three Journeys to California","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/02/2017-02-03-tcrmag.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11299596/three-refugees-three-journeys-to-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The California Report Magazine recently won an \u003ca href=\"http://www.spjnorcal.org/new/2017/10/23/2017-excellence-in-journalism-award-winners/\">award\u003c/a> from the Society of Professional Journalists for a show highlighting the stories of three Californians who have journeyed to the U.S. as refugees at different points in history. It originally aired in February 2017 after President Donald Trump announced his initial travel ban and plans to stop admission of certain refugees. We re-aired the show, with updates, in December. Listen to the full show:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306438245&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306438245'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One man we profiled fled the Syrian civil war with his family, and recently settled in East Oakland. Another fled Vietnam in the wake of the Vietnam War in 1975, and settled in Los Angeles. A third fled the Holocaust in 1945, and settled in Berkeley after surviving nine Nazi concentration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/06/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299887 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his garden in East Oakland. He stands among young figs, lemons, grapes, peas, and loquats. The small side yard pales in comparison to the nearly ten-acre farm the family had in Syria.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Mohammed-Aref-Rawoas-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his garden in East Oakland. He stands among young figs, lemons, grapes, peas and loquats. The small side yard pales in comparison to the nearly 10-acre farm the family had in Syria. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Syria\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home:\u003c/strong> Oakland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year immigrated: \u003c/strong>2015\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Syrian civil war\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had to show\u003c/a> to get in: \u003c/strong>fingerprints, identification cards, photos, iris scans, medical exams, five background checks, dozens of interviews\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's efforts to limit refugees: \u003c/strong>\"We think the world is closed now to refugees because every country has reached its capacity or is closed. Where are people supposed to go? They will either stay inside [Syria] and die in the war, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea. We were joyful that doors opened for us, but now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: The family has started a Bay Area catering business called Old Damascus Fare, making mostly Syrian dishes. \"We are hoping that the catering business will help us to build a good life in this country,\" says his daughter Batool. \"We want to move past the struggles that come along with being a refugee, and hope to have an easier life.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/04/viet-thanh-nguyen-on-his-timely-collection-the-refugees/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viet Thanh Nguyen\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299999\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299999 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-800x533.jpg\" alt='Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen signs copies of his new collection of short stories, \"The Refugees.\" Nguyen came to the United States with his family as a refugee from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Viet-Thanh-Nguyen-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen signs copies of his new collection of short stories, \"The Refugees.\" Nguyen came to the United States with his family as a refugee from Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Viet Thanh Nguyen\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Vietnam\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Los Angeles\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1975\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Communist victory in the Vietnam War\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he had to show to get in: \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Obviously we didn't have the kinds of documents we would have needed because we were war refugees. People who left in a more organized fashion before the final day of the invasion did have to present passports and visas. But people who were just literally jumping on boats to get out, we didn't have those kinds of documents.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's efforts to restrict refugees: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"I wouldn't want to be in that situation. It's happening to people that their lives have suddenly been utterly disrupted. The Trump administration has said this is simply a temporary disruption, but obviously if it's your life and you've been cut off from your home, your family, your children, your spouse, it's devastating.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: Since we first braodcast this interview, Viet Nguyen was awarded a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-macarthur-fellows-nguyen-20171010-story.html\">Macarthur \"Genius\" award\u003c/a> for his fiction and cultural criticism. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/05/unlikely-roomates-holocaust-survivor-and-granddaughter-of-nazis-share-a-home-in-berkeley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Stern\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11299998 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Stern holds up a copy of a newspaper clipping show him and his wife after they came to the United States as Jewish refugees after World War II. Stern survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/Ben-Stern-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Stern holds up a copy of a newspaper clipping show him and his wife after they came to the United States as Jewish refugees after World War II. Stern survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Name: \u003c/strong>Ben Stern\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home Country: \u003c/strong>Poland\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Home: \u003c/strong>Berkeley\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Year Immigrated: \u003c/strong>1945\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why he fled: \u003c/strong>Holocaust\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he had to show to get in: \u003c/strong>His tattoo from a Nazi concentration camp\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What he thinks of President Trump's executive orders: \"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We as American people must say not now, not here. The Constitution offers the freedom of speech and religion. We need to help the people when they reach for a handout.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update, December 2017: In August, Ben Stern\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/27/holocaust-survivor-leads-march-in-berkeley/\"> led an anti-racism march\u003c/a> in downtown Berkeley. He'll be speaking at a \u003ca href=\"https://bampfa.org/event/free-speech-and-its-limits-unfinished-conversation\">screening\u003c/a> of \"Near Normal Man,\" a documentary about his life, on January 25 in Berkeley.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11299596/three-refugees-three-journeys-to-california","authors":["254","8648","107","11260","98","11314"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20484","news_19006","news_19005","news_17286","news_235"],"featImg":"news_11300087","label":"news_72"},"news_11475645":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11475645","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11475645","score":null,"sort":[1496441132000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"without-funds-a-scramble-to-assist-syrian-refugee-migration-to-fresno","title":"Without Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno","publishDate":1496441132,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Kathleen Chavoor-Bergen learned there were Syrians in Fresno, she immediately volunteered to help out. She’s Armenian-American, so she understands something about war and displacement. Her own grandparents survived the Armenian genocide by fleeing to Aleppo, Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for Aleppo, I wouldn’t be here today,” says Chavoor-Bergen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s translated that gratitude into befriending several Syrian refugee families in Fresno. “It’s really the least I can do. They [Syrians in Aleppo] opened their arms to my family, and now I’m opening my arms to theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavoor-Bergen is also educating the community. She educates public school counselors about the recent migration of Syrian refugees to Fresno. She wants the counselors to understand that more than half of displaced Syrians are children, most under the age of 12. Many of them are now enrolled in Fresno schools -- some have been wounded, burned or have witnessed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"yxMMQW1TUkVyzN8En1rmwTVtsyTfoXNe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve endured the destruction of their homes and communities, survived forced displacement. Part of the complexity of their trauma is that it went from their home maybe in Aleppo to the [refugee] camps and the extreme vetting process,” Chavoor-Bergen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on to resettlement areas like San Diego, Sacramento and Turlock. Now, some of those families are deciding on their own to move to Fresno. Housing is cheaper here, and there’s a large and welcoming Arab-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fresno is not a resettlement city -- meaning it receives no federal funding to help refugees start over -- so volunteers and advocacy groups are scrambling to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-31c-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/06/02/RefugeeKidforPlayer.jpg\" Title=\"Without Federal Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Layla Darwish. She has a part-time job with \u003ca href=\"https://www.firminc.org/\">Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)\u003c/a> to help Syrians interpret their new landscape. But for Darwish, part time means \u003ci>all\u003c/i> her waking hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her own, Darwish started a tutoring program where volunteers help kids with homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks up from the sidewalk and greets a Syrian woman yelling down to her from her second-floor apartment. Darwish just saw her yesterday, but the woman clearly misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'I haven’t seen you in a long time,' ” says Darwish, translating. “So that’s quite common. A lot of them are kind of territorial. They want you to spend more time with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this 16-unit apartment complex, there are 41 children, and on any given day, you can hear them laughing and yelling and chasing each other in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Working with Syrians has taken a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing.'\u003ccite>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ray Harris, 22, is a member of the only family here that’s not Syrian. He says he likes his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They show a lot of love, man. They bring you food and everything,” he says. He adds that he uses \u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\">Google translate \u003c/a>to communicate with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door to Harris, Mohammed Bachan tells Darwish that life is better for refugees here in America. He has five kids, and he now works as a mechanic -- in Syria he had a car dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and his family first moved to Fresno, they were scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they didn’t know where to start,' Darwish says. \"In the beginning there was a local mosque that helped them just network with people. And then once FIRM came in, we started taking them to the DMV to get their permits, their driving lessons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, this neighborhood was teeming with Hmong refugees. The rents are still cheap, about $450 for a two-bedroom unit. But it isn’t always safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a number of attacks from the neighborhood gangs, anywhere from throwing stones to knives. The police have been called lately,” she says. “One of my colleagues was patrolling the neighborhood until 12 at night. They just want to live here in peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9NX2GpzxchqOeLAT7GCWS5d0wKAWMgcg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah says he’s partnering with local Islamic cultural centers, churches and advocacy groups to help Syrians find better housing, cars and jobs. About 200 Syrians have migrated to Fresno, most in the past year, and Darrah expects more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten calls from Indiana, from Florida, from Texas, San Diego and San Jose,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno is used to having refugees: Hmong and other groups make up about 10 percent of the city’s population. But helping refugees is tricky without resettlement funds, says Darrah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with Syrians has taken just a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing,” he says. “I’ve spoken to churches that do not agree with what we’re doing as a Christian organization. [[They say]] ‘why are we working with Muslims and why are we serving these other folks and why are they even here’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11489252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11489252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1180x1603.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-960x1305.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-240x326.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-375x510.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-520x707.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wasan Abu-Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And these families have already been through so much trauma, he says. They are starting from scratch, finding jobs, learning English, enrolling their kids in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on top of that, some of them have experienced extreme prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to protect them, make them feel safe,” says Darrah. “But we have to be clear with families that not everyone does. These are unfortunate conversations to have with refugees who have just left a horrendous situation. Many have lost family and suffered terribly, and they come here to us and we have to talk with them about taking safety precautions!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, FIRM did get a county grant to hire three part-time employees to interpret for and assist Syrian refugees. Wasan Abu-Baker is one of those interpreters. But she was helping Syrians long before she was hired by FIRM, taking them to medical appointments, the mosque and the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, too, left a war-torn place to come to the United States from Palestine after marrying an American citizen. And now, she not only works for FIRM but she’s also doing a community engagement project as a fellow for the Tamejavi Cultural Organizing Fellowship Program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tamejavi.org/pvi.php\">Pan Valley Institute\u003c/a>. The goal is to learn about her Muslim community in Fresno and empower the community through leadership, cultural organizing and art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the project has opened her eyes to the many gifts Syrian refugees and asylum seekers have to offer. “I found out we have a lot of hidden artists in our community,” she says. “But we need to share that with other communities so they know what we have as Muslims here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, as part of her project, she brought a Syrian interior designer who does elaborate paintings on ceramics to a crafts store to pick out some paints and paintbrushes. The artist was surprised by the number of choices available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our country, only once choice,” she tells Abu-Baker. “I know!” Abu-Baker says. “This is what I learn. This country, a lot of choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choices that Abu-Baker hopes will make the lives of Syrian refugees easier in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fresno's large, welcoming Arab-American community draws Syrian refugees -- but it's a big challenge without resettlement support from the government.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1496445693,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1338},"headData":{"title":"Without Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno | KQED","description":"Fresno's large, welcoming Arab-American community draws Syrian refugees -- but it's a big challenge without resettlement support from the government.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Without Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno","datePublished":"2017-06-02T22:05:32.000Z","dateModified":"2017-06-02T23:21:33.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11475645 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11475645","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/02/without-funds-a-scramble-to-assist-syrian-refugee-migration-to-fresno/","disqusTitle":"Without Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-31c-tcr.mp3","guestFields":"0","path":"/news/11475645/without-funds-a-scramble-to-assist-syrian-refugee-migration-to-fresno","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Kathleen Chavoor-Bergen learned there were Syrians in Fresno, she immediately volunteered to help out. She’s Armenian-American, so she understands something about war and displacement. Her own grandparents survived the Armenian genocide by fleeing to Aleppo, Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it wasn’t for Aleppo, I wouldn’t be here today,” says Chavoor-Bergen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s translated that gratitude into befriending several Syrian refugee families in Fresno. “It’s really the least I can do. They [Syrians in Aleppo] opened their arms to my family, and now I’m opening my arms to theirs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavoor-Bergen is also educating the community. She educates public school counselors about the recent migration of Syrian refugees to Fresno. She wants the counselors to understand that more than half of displaced Syrians are children, most under the age of 12. Many of them are now enrolled in Fresno schools -- some have been wounded, burned or have witnessed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve endured the destruction of their homes and communities, survived forced displacement. Part of the complexity of their trauma is that it went from their home maybe in Aleppo to the [refugee] camps and the extreme vetting process,” Chavoor-Bergen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on to resettlement areas like San Diego, Sacramento and Turlock. Now, some of those families are deciding on their own to move to Fresno. Housing is cheaper here, and there’s a large and welcoming Arab-American community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fresno is not a resettlement city -- meaning it receives no federal funding to help refugees start over -- so volunteers and advocacy groups are scrambling to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-31c-tcr.mp3","image":"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/06/02/RefugeeKidforPlayer.jpg","title":"Without Federal Funds, a Scramble to Assist Syrian Refugee Migration to Fresno","program":"The California Report","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Layla Darwish. She has a part-time job with \u003ca href=\"https://www.firminc.org/\">Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM)\u003c/a> to help Syrians interpret their new landscape. But for Darwish, part time means \u003ci>all\u003c/i> her waking hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her own, Darwish started a tutoring program where volunteers help kids with homework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She looks up from the sidewalk and greets a Syrian woman yelling down to her from her second-floor apartment. Darwish just saw her yesterday, but the woman clearly misses her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'I haven’t seen you in a long time,' ” says Darwish, translating. “So that’s quite common. A lot of them are kind of territorial. They want you to spend more time with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this 16-unit apartment complex, there are 41 children, and on any given day, you can hear them laughing and yelling and chasing each other in the courtyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Working with Syrians has taken a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing.'\u003ccite>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Ray Harris, 22, is a member of the only family here that’s not Syrian. He says he likes his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They show a lot of love, man. They bring you food and everything,” he says. He adds that he uses \u003ca href=\"https://translate.google.com/\">Google translate \u003c/a>to communicate with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next door to Harris, Mohammed Bachan tells Darwish that life is better for refugees here in America. He has five kids, and he now works as a mechanic -- in Syria he had a car dealership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he and his family first moved to Fresno, they were scared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because they didn’t know where to start,' Darwish says. \"In the beginning there was a local mosque that helped them just network with people. And then once FIRM came in, we started taking them to the DMV to get their permits, their driving lessons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few decades ago, this neighborhood was teeming with Hmong refugees. The rents are still cheap, about $450 for a two-bedroom unit. But it isn’t always safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been a number of attacks from the neighborhood gangs, anywhere from throwing stones to knives. The police have been called lately,” she says. “One of my colleagues was patrolling the neighborhood until 12 at night. They just want to live here in peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FIRM Executive Director Zack Darrah says he’s partnering with local Islamic cultural centers, churches and advocacy groups to help Syrians find better housing, cars and jobs. About 200 Syrians have migrated to Fresno, most in the past year, and Darrah expects more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve gotten calls from Indiana, from Florida, from Texas, San Diego and San Jose,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno is used to having refugees: Hmong and other groups make up about 10 percent of the city’s population. But helping refugees is tricky without resettlement funds, says Darrah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working with Syrians has taken just a huge amount of our capacity. The dollars are very challenging, and it’s also because it’s a polarizing issue. I’ve spoken at places that blatantly do not agree with the work we’re doing,” he says. “I’ve spoken to churches that do not agree with what we’re doing as a Christian organization. [[They say]] ‘why are we working with Muslims and why are we serving these other folks and why are they even here’?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11489252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11489252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1087\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-1180x1603.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-960x1305.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-240x326.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-375x510.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/Wasan-520x707.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpreter Wasan Abu-Baker is guided by her own immigrant experience in helping Syrian refugees. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Wasan Abu-Baker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And these families have already been through so much trauma, he says. They are starting from scratch, finding jobs, learning English, enrolling their kids in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on top of that, some of them have experienced extreme prejudice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to protect them, make them feel safe,” says Darrah. “But we have to be clear with families that not everyone does. These are unfortunate conversations to have with refugees who have just left a horrendous situation. Many have lost family and suffered terribly, and they come here to us and we have to talk with them about taking safety precautions!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, FIRM did get a county grant to hire three part-time employees to interpret for and assist Syrian refugees. Wasan Abu-Baker is one of those interpreters. But she was helping Syrians long before she was hired by FIRM, taking them to medical appointments, the mosque and the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, too, left a war-torn place to come to the United States from Palestine after marrying an American citizen. And now, she not only works for FIRM but she’s also doing a community engagement project as a fellow for the Tamejavi Cultural Organizing Fellowship Program at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.tamejavi.org/pvi.php\">Pan Valley Institute\u003c/a>. The goal is to learn about her Muslim community in Fresno and empower the community through leadership, cultural organizing and art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the project has opened her eyes to the many gifts Syrian refugees and asylum seekers have to offer. “I found out we have a lot of hidden artists in our community,” she says. “But we need to share that with other communities so they know what we have as Muslims here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, as part of her project, she brought a Syrian interior designer who does elaborate paintings on ceramics to a crafts store to pick out some paints and paintbrushes. The artist was surprised by the number of choices available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our country, only once choice,” she tells Abu-Baker. “I know!” Abu-Baker says. “This is what I learn. This country, a lot of choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Choices that Abu-Baker hopes will make the lives of Syrian refugees easier in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11475645/without-funds-a-scramble-to-assist-syrian-refugee-migration-to-fresno","authors":["208"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6266","news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_37","news_21004","news_20555","news_19005","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11489244","label":"news_72"},"news_11299682":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11299682","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11299682","score":null,"sort":[1486414618000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","title":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California","publishDate":1486414618,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his family’s garden in East Oakland. He ignores the trucks that roll by just over his chain-link fence and points out a lemon tree, an apricot tree and a fig tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grapevine snakes along the fence and there are also peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot growing in a compact area that fits roughly two cars. This urban oasis is nothing compared to the 10-acre farm the family had in Syria, where they grew over 100 fruit trees, Rawoas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas, his wife Rawaa Kasedah and their four children came to the U.S. as refugees from Syria almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Comfortable Life, Disrupted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Syria, Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory and the family had a comfortable life they never before considered leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the fighting from the civil war in Syria got closer, it became too dangerous for the kids to go to school. Kasedah says the violence severely stressed the children, who now range in age from 11 to 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All they talked about was war: 'I saw someone's leg cut off and I saw a body part here and there,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fighting reached Rawoas' factory, he shut it down. All 50 of his employees lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasedah says they tolerated the war for nearly a year, but then the fighting came too close to their home in a Damascus suburb. At one point, two tanks faced off in front of the Rawoas family house. The building shook every time one fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hardest day was the day I left my home,\" Kasedah says. \"That day, we didn't know who was bombing or dropping rockets. All of the bombing was right over my house. The electricity went out, and there was no place safe since my whole house is windows. I was scared. We all slept in a small hallway between the rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of six spent the last night in their home on a foam mattress in the dark, crying, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, they fled their home of eight years. Kasedah wept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My husband said, 'You sound like you've lost a child the way you're crying,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Jordan, in Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After crossing the border to Jordan, the family was able to register as refugees with the United Nations. Luckily, they rented a house in Jordan, rather than living in the challenging circumstances of a refugee camp. Kasedah felt this was critical to the safety of her children, especially her teenage daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mother describes this period of waiting as one of the hardest times the family faced. As refugees, it was hard to find work. Every time the kids went back to school, it was unclear if they’d finish the term. Rawoas and Kasedah worried that any misstep could send them all back to Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people. We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.'\u003ccite>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A year after crossing the border, though, the family learned they’d be resettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just told us you are eligible to immigrate,\" Kasedah remembers. \"We did the first interview, we said, where will we go? They said, 'We still don't know.' We were happy, because we just wanted a way out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their way out was to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family's waiting period was punctuated by daylong interviews with a variety of government officials every two-three months. Kasedah says the family even developed a routine around the interviews, since they were so frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that if I had an interview that day, I was leaving at eight. I would not be home until the evening. So I would pack sandwiches for the kids,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was interviewed together and separately. Sometimes Rawoas, the father, would be interviewed for four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"20VE5bD5raOkypUl65bE7g0TCR811Eqq\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were fingerprints, photos, iris scans and medical exams. The family describes an\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/588a14fc4\" target=\"_blank\"> intensive screening process\u003c/a>, involving eight federal U.S. agencies, six security databases and five separate background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of one interview day, an official told the family they had only a small chance of being accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years after leaving Syria, the family finally boarded a plane to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Home in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the transition to the U.S. was incredibly difficult. Kasedah wasn't used to feeling so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first came, for the first five months I cried every day because I was so used to doing everything for my kids myself,\" she says. Kasedah didn't speak English and didn't know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt and homemade pickles. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after two years in Oakland, Kasedah and Rawoas are enrolled in English classes. Rawoas works as a bus driver for kids with disabilities, and for the ride-hailing company Uber. Kasedah hopes to launch Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant. The older children, both daughters go to college, one working as a dental assistant and the other as a barista. One volunteers with newly arrived refugees. The two younger children study and play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Desire to Give Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels gratitude for his new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people,\" he says. \"We don't consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels this so strongly that he’d fight for the United States. When his eldest daughter told him that she saw recruiters for the U.S. military at her college campus, Rawoas told her he wanted to join. At the time, he didn't yet have his green card, which disqualified him from joining. When he got a green card, he went back to the recruiter. This time, he was turned down for age. He's almost 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's still thinking about other ways to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FAow4g7RW9440fHtkbR1GNq1N1uivDmh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would make me really happy to work for the government or join the police because I really feel like I want to serve this country since we've gotten so much,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rawoas family came here when President Obama was in office, but now that President Trump is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512439121/trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-annotated\" target=\"_blank\">restricting refugees from coming in\u003c/a>, they feel just a little less welcome. And they empathize with others in the position in which they once were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are people supposed to go?\" Rawoas asks. \"They will either stay inside [Syria] and die, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were joyful that doors opened for us,\" he says. \"But now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Kasedah's brother. He's been approved to come to the United States and the Rawoases are his sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does not yet have a plane ticket, given the uncertainty surrounding the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His suitcases in Jordan are zipped up. He's just waiting for the flight reservation,\" Kasedah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the family will just have to wait and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lubna Takruri contributed translation services to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As a family of Syrian refugees makes a home in East Oakland, they empathize with others waiting in limbo.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1486420231,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":50,"wordCount":1349},"headData":{"title":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California | KQED","description":"As a family of Syrian refugees makes a home in East Oakland, they empathize with others waiting in limbo.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California","datePublished":"2017-02-06T20:56:58.000Z","dateModified":"2017-02-06T22:30:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11299682 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11299682","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/06/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california/","disqusTitle":"Uprooted by War, Syrian Family Grows New Community in California","path":"/news/11299682/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mohammad Aref Rawoas shows off his family’s garden in East Oakland. He ignores the trucks that roll by just over his chain-link fence and points out a lemon tree, an apricot tree and a fig tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A grapevine snakes along the fence and there are also peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot growing in a compact area that fits roughly two cars. This urban oasis is nothing compared to the 10-acre farm the family had in Syria, where they grew over 100 fruit trees, Rawoas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas, his wife Rawaa Kasedah and their four children came to the U.S. as refugees from Syria almost two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Comfortable Life, Disrupted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Syria, Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory and the family had a comfortable life they never before considered leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the fighting from the civil war in Syria got closer, it became too dangerous for the kids to go to school. Kasedah says the violence severely stressed the children, who now range in age from 11 to 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All they talked about was war: 'I saw someone's leg cut off and I saw a body part here and there,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the fighting reached Rawoas' factory, he shut it down. All 50 of his employees lost their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kasedah says they tolerated the war for nearly a year, but then the fighting came too close to their home in a Damascus suburb. At one point, two tanks faced off in front of the Rawoas family house. The building shook every time one fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/306030064'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hardest day was the day I left my home,\" Kasedah says. \"That day, we didn't know who was bombing or dropping rockets. All of the bombing was right over my house. The electricity went out, and there was no place safe since my whole house is windows. I was scared. We all slept in a small hallway between the rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family of six spent the last night in their home on a foam mattress in the dark, crying, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, they fled their home of eight years. Kasedah wept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My husband said, 'You sound like you've lost a child the way you're crying,' \" she recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Jordan, in Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After crossing the border to Jordan, the family was able to register as refugees with the United Nations. Luckily, they rented a house in Jordan, rather than living in the challenging circumstances of a refugee camp. Kasedah felt this was critical to the safety of her children, especially her teenage daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mother describes this period of waiting as one of the hardest times the family faced. As refugees, it was hard to find work. Every time the kids went back to school, it was unclear if they’d finish the term. Rawoas and Kasedah worried that any misstep could send them all back to Syria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people. We don’t consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.'\u003ccite>Mohammad Aref Rawoas\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A year after crossing the border, though, the family learned they’d be resettled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just told us you are eligible to immigrate,\" Kasedah remembers. \"We did the first interview, we said, where will we go? They said, 'We still don't know.' We were happy, because we just wanted a way out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their way out was to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family's waiting period was punctuated by daylong interviews with a variety of government officials every two-three months. Kasedah says the family even developed a routine around the interviews, since they were so frequent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I knew that if I had an interview that day, I was leaving at eight. I would not be home until the evening. So I would pack sandwiches for the kids,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family was interviewed together and separately. Sometimes Rawoas, the father, would be interviewed for four hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were fingerprints, photos, iris scans and medical exams. The family describes an\u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/588a14fc4\" target=\"_blank\"> intensive screening process\u003c/a>, involving eight federal U.S. agencies, six security databases and five separate background checks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of one interview day, an official told the family they had only a small chance of being accepted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three years after leaving Syria, the family finally boarded a plane to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New Home in America\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning, the transition to the U.S. was incredibly difficult. Kasedah wasn't used to feeling so helpless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I first came, for the first five months I cried every day because I was so used to doing everything for my kids myself,\" she says. Kasedah didn't speak English and didn't know where to go for simple resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the help of friends, their community and resettlement agencies, however, the family found their footing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11299911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11299911\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur, and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt, and homemade pickles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24009_food-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rawaa Kasedah hopes to teach Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant that will feature dishes like mujaddara, shown here. It's a classic meal that consists of lentils, bulgur and fried onions. Kasedah accompanies the dish with baba ganoush, salad, yogurt and homemade pickles. \u003ccite>(Laura Klivans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, after two years in Oakland, Kasedah and Rawoas are enrolled in English classes. Rawoas works as a bus driver for kids with disabilities, and for the ride-hailing company Uber. Kasedah hopes to launch Syrian cooking classes and eventually open a Syrian restaurant. The older children, both daughters go to college, one working as a dental assistant and the other as a barista. One volunteers with newly arrived refugees. The two younger children study and play sports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Desire to Give Back\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels gratitude for his new home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've come to America, and we've lived in America, and eaten its food and seen its people,\" he says. \"We don't consider ourselves guests or refugees. I feel [America's] my country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rawoas feels this so strongly that he’d fight for the United States. When his eldest daughter told him that she saw recruiters for the U.S. military at her college campus, Rawoas told her he wanted to join. At the time, he didn't yet have his green card, which disqualified him from joining. When he got a green card, he went back to the recruiter. This time, he was turned down for age. He's almost 50 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's still thinking about other ways to serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would make me really happy to work for the government or join the police because I really feel like I want to serve this country since we've gotten so much,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rawoas family came here when President Obama was in office, but now that President Trump is \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512439121/trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-annotated\" target=\"_blank\">restricting refugees from coming in\u003c/a>, they feel just a little less welcome. And they empathize with others in the position in which they once were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are people supposed to go?\" Rawoas asks. \"They will either stay inside [Syria] and die, or they will try to get out and flee. If they don't die inside, they'll die at sea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were joyful that doors opened for us,\" he says. \"But now, for many people, life has become dark.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Kasedah's brother. He's been approved to come to the United States and the Rawoases are his sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he does not yet have a plane ticket, given the uncertainty surrounding the executive order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"His suitcases in Jordan are zipped up. He's just waiting for the flight reservation,\" Kasedah says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, the family will just have to wait and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lubna Takruri contributed translation services to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11299682/uprooted-by-war-syrian-family-grows-new-community-in-california","authors":["8648"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_18352","news_18066","news_18","news_19006","news_4768","news_19005","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11299684","label":"news_72"},"news_10885303":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10885303","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10885303","score":null,"sort":[1457251553000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"gay-and-syrian-one-refugees-journey-to-the-bay-area","title":"A Gay Syrian Refugee Rebuilds His Life in the Bay Area","publishDate":1457251553,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Subhi Nahas remembers the exact day when he knew he’d have to leave Syria. It was in the spring of 2012. He was 24, on a bus, going to his university to take a final exam. It was the last exam he needed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says they came up to a checkpoint, and a group of soldiers stopped the bus. They checked the IDs of all the young men, and then they singled out Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what happened next. “They take you to a room, and put you in a chair, where you’re all alone,\" he recalls. \"The chairs, and the table, and the ground, they’re full of blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250266753\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were Syrian government soldiers. They were cracking down on rebels who opposed the president, Bashar al-Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Nahas had nothing to do with the civil war, these soldiers decided to pick on him anyway. They’d noticed that he looked different. He acted effeminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says for 30 minutes they harassed him and called him homophobic names. He was scared for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that moment I was like, feeling that -- yeah, that's the end of it,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t. They let him go without hurting him. But after that, Nahas was too afraid to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back home I was saying to myself, ‘What's the point of staying in Syria, while you cannot complete your studies?’ Without this you cannot do anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dangers at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soldiers who messed with Nahas were from the Assad regime. But a few months later, rebels opposing Assad took root in Nahas’ city, Maarat al-Numan. They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings ... except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're not safe outside and you're not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody's going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you're doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"VFWhWLxAbUZbF0wRZRDw0g0HaFRo6MXy\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. They can travel to a country like Germany, hoping they receive asylum, or they can petition the U.N. for resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. resettles only people who are part of a persecuted group. One of those groups is LGBT people. But there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\">4.5 million\u003c/a> Syrian refugees. And less than \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/559ce97f9.html\">1 percent\u003c/a> of them are resettled by the U.N.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my case would be, like, really accepted,” says Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process took almost a year. He did interview after interview, screening after screening, until one day the Department of Homeland Security sent him a letter saying, effectively, “Your case has been deferred for further investigation, thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas says this was the hardest part -- not knowing if they’d ever get back to him. His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with -- an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn't come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why -- especially for LGBT refugees -- creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you're escaping from your own community, or you're escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM -- the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says \"You Are Safe Here\" in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. And like almost everybody in the refugee program, Nahas is on track to eventually get a green card and U.S. citizenship. But what sets his case apart is the bond he made with Hertz and the local gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a good feeling when you really know that somebody cares and loves you this much,” says Nahas. “It's life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first appeared at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/gay-and-syrian-one-refugee-s-journey-san-francisco\">\u003cem>KALW.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'If you're not safe outside and you're not safe inside ... nobody's going to save you.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1457145271,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":56,"wordCount":1638},"headData":{"title":"A Gay Syrian Refugee Rebuilds His Life in the Bay Area | KQED","description":"'If you're not safe outside and you're not safe inside ... nobody's going to save you.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Gay Syrian Refugee Rebuilds His Life in the Bay Area","datePublished":"2016-03-06T08:05:53.000Z","dateModified":"2016-03-05T02:34:31.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10885303 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10885303","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/06/gay-and-syrian-one-refugees-journey-to-the-bay-area/","disqusTitle":"A Gay Syrian Refugee Rebuilds His Life in the Bay Area","nprByline":"Eli Wirtschafter","path":"/news/10885303/gay-and-syrian-one-refugees-journey-to-the-bay-area","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Subhi Nahas remembers the exact day when he knew he’d have to leave Syria. It was in the spring of 2012. He was 24, on a bus, going to his university to take a final exam. It was the last exam he needed to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says they came up to a checkpoint, and a group of soldiers stopped the bus. They checked the IDs of all the young men, and then they singled out Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He describes what happened next. “They take you to a room, and put you in a chair, where you’re all alone,\" he recalls. \"The chairs, and the table, and the ground, they’re full of blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250266753&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/250266753'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These were Syrian government soldiers. They were cracking down on rebels who opposed the president, Bashar al-Assad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Nahas had nothing to do with the civil war, these soldiers decided to pick on him anyway. They’d noticed that he looked different. He acted effeminate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says for 30 minutes they harassed him and called him homophobic names. He was scared for his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that moment I was like, feeling that -- yeah, that's the end of it,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t. They let him go without hurting him. But after that, Nahas was too afraid to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I came back home I was saying to myself, ‘What's the point of staying in Syria, while you cannot complete your studies?’ Without this you cannot do anything.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dangers at Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soldiers who messed with Nahas were from the Assad regime. But a few months later, rebels opposing Assad took root in Nahas’ city, Maarat al-Numan. They belonged to al-Nusra Front, which is the Syrian branch of al-Qaida. For Nahas, they were even worse than the regime. He remembers them announcing that they would “cleanse the city of sodomites.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886257\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-1180x832.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/AlNusraFighters-960x677.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fighters with the al-Nusra Front drive in the Syrian city of Aleppo, flying Islamist flags in 2015. For gay refugees like Nahas, they were even worse than the Assad regime. \u003ccite>(Fadi al-Halabi/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“So I cannot go to university, I cannot go out,” Nahas remembers. “So I have to stay home all the time. But, then, staying at home was not safe, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many LGBT people who become refugees, Nahas felt threatened by his own family. His parents never accepted the idea of a gay son. Nahas lived at home with them, but his father didn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we did not even say good morning to each other,” says Nahas. “Even when we speak, he never expressed his emotions or feelings ... except when he’s really angry and he wanted to express how angry he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, they were in the kitchen. They had a fight, and his father lost his temper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He grabbed my head from the back and he just smashed it into the kitchen counter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas still has a scar on his chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you're not safe outside and you're not safe inside, and your family will not protect you from your father because your father has anger management issues, you better run,” Nahas says. “Nobody's going to save you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He immediately made plans to cross the border into Lebanon, where he had a friend he could stay with. This journey was legal, but he had heard horrible stories about gay people who were raped as they tried to get across. So he bribed a taxi driver to deal with all the checkpoints. Nahas sat in the back of the cab and pretended he couldn’t talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Refugee Limbo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He stayed in Lebanon for six months. And then he moved to Turkey, where it was a little easier to be gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a different, completely different experience,” says Nahas, “especially exploring myself, exploring my sexuality, trying to understand my body more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He even went to his first gay pride parade in Istanbul. It was there that he met a lawyer from a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.oraminternational.org\">ORAM\u003c/a>, the Organization for Refuge and Migration. They’re based in San Francisco and they advocate for LGBT refugees around the world. He kept the lawyer’s card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my life would be threatened the next week after meeting them,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas started to get threatening phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of what you're doing, promoting this perversion,” Nahas remembers the caller saying, “either you stop, or you deserve to die.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He discovered that the caller was a friend of a friend who had joined ISIS. Nahas remembers at one point getting 40 calls in a single hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He contacted ORAM, and asked how to get out of the country. They told him about the U.N.’s Refugee Resettlement Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syrian migrants in Turkey have two basic options if they want to settle in another country. They can travel to a country like Germany, hoping they receive asylum, or they can petition the U.N. for resettlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. resettles only people who are part of a persecuted group. One of those groups is LGBT people. But there are \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\">4.5 million\u003c/a> Syrian refugees. And less than \u003ca href=\"http://www.unhcr.org/559ce97f9.html\">1 percent\u003c/a> of them are resettled by the U.N.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never knew that my case would be, like, really accepted,” says Nahas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process took almost a year. He did interview after interview, screening after screening, until one day the Department of Homeland Security sent him a letter saying, effectively, “Your case has been deferred for further investigation, thank you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas says this was the hardest part -- not knowing if they’d ever get back to him. His friends at ORAM tried to keep his hopes up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were like, calming me, helping me to, you know, digest the whole thing,” Nahas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then suddenly, with no more explanation than before, he found out that he was cleared.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas flew to California on June 4, 2015. He even knew who he was going to live with -- an older gay couple in Oakland had agreed to be his sponsors, to host him in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Home in the Bay Area\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Hertz and his partner gave Nahas a room in their house in North Oakland. He lived there for two months before finding other housing. (Hertz’s partner requested not to be identified for this story).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886217\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886217\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home.\" width=\"800\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-800x588.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-400x294.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-1180x867.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/HertzNahas-960x706.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred Hertz with Subhi Nahas, at Fred’s home. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hertz got involved with LGBT refugee rights five years ago. “Here I am this successful gay lawyer living a liberated life,” says Hertz. “When someone comes forward saying there are gay people in trouble in other countries, how could I say no?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had donated time and money to ORAM, but hosting a refugee in his home was a much more personal commitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hertz says his biggest concerns were “things like, ‘Oh my God, what if he gets here and has a nervous breakdown and locks himself in his room and doesn't come out for six months? What am I going to \u003cem>do\u003c/em>?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they got along like family. They especially enjoyed cooking Mediterranean food together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Nahas went back to Hertz’s house to prepare an elaborate lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10886220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10886220\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-400x254.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-1180x750.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/WatermelonSalad-960x610.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A watermelon and feta salad Subhi and Fred made together. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows Hertz the way he learned how to cut a pomegranate without getting juice everywhere. The pomegranate goes on a roasted eggplant dish, which Nahas calls \u003cem>mlatash\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Hertz’s commitments as a sponsor was to help Nahas with his paperwork. \u003ca href=\"http://jfcs-eastbay.org/lgbt-refugee-services/\">JFCS East Bay\u003c/a>, Nahas’s official resettlement agency, gave Hertz a list of all the appointments Nahas needed to get to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hertz wasn’t available, he got his friends to help. Nahas explained why -- especially for LGBT refugees -- creating that kind of community is essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whereas most refugees might be resettled into a community from their home country, “if you’re an LGBT most of the time you're escaping from your own community, or you're escaping from your family, or you have nobody,” says Nahas. “So you need somebody to be with you, and you need somebody to help you in the first steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Nahas is working at ORAM -- the same organization he reached out to when he was in Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas shows me a poster that he designed with ORAM. It says \"You Are Safe Here\" in a dozen languages, in rainbow colors. They’re sending it to refugee offices around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nahas has had a remarkably smooth transition into the United States. Some help came from the government. When they first arrive, refugees get a small stipend, food stamps and health care. And like almost everybody in the refugee program, Nahas is on track to eventually get a green card and U.S. citizenship. But what sets his case apart is the bond he made with Hertz and the local gay community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a good feeling when you really know that somebody cares and loves you this much,” says Nahas. “It's life-changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article first appeared at \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/gay-and-syrian-one-refugee-s-journey-san-francisco\">\u003cem>KALW.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10885303/gay-and-syrian-one-refugees-journey-to-the-bay-area","authors":["byline_news_10885303"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_82","news_19006","news_19005","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10886214","label":"news_72"},"news_10799545":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10799545","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10799545","score":null,"sort":[1450726203000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"syrian-refugee-family-adapts-to-new-life-in-oakland","title":"Syrian Refugee Family Adapts to Life in Oakland","publishDate":1450726203,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>At her apartment in East Oakland, Rawaa Kasedah, 37, fries almonds in a deep pan. She adds them to the chickpea, pita bread and yogurt dish she is preparing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's called fatteh hummus,\" she says in Arabic. Her husband, Mohammad Rawoas, and their four children fill their plates with boiled eggs, olives and baba ghanoush already on the table. The meal is the \"perfect Syrian breakfast,\" they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six members of the Rawoas family arrived in the U.S. nine months ago as refugees. They are among the roughly 260 Syrian refugees who have been resettled in California since March 2011, when Syria's civil war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238517553\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Paris attacks last month sparked a controversy in the United States over whether to admit more Syrian refugees, and the resettlement program has come under fire from mostly Republican lawmakers and elected officials. In unconfirmed reports, one of the gunmen in Paris was alleged to have entered Europe by posing as a refugee with a Syrian passport, which authorities now recognize as fake, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/17/were-syrian-refugees-involved-in-the-paris-attacks-what-we-know-and-dont-know/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syria's civil war has forced over \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\" target=\"_blank\">4.3 million people\u003c/a> to register as refugees in asylum countries such as Egypt and Jordan, according to the United Nations The U.S. has admitted just \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrapsnet.org/Reports/InteractiveReporting/tabid/393/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2,310\u003c/a> since the conflict began, significantly fewer than countries like Germany and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suburb of Damascus where the Rawoas family lived, Mohammed Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory. He had to lay off all 50 employees when the area turned into a war zone. Three of Rawaa Kasedah's cousins were arrested and disappeared. Tanks rolled on the streets and sniper fire flew into the Rawoas home. Many of their neighbors were killed during bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would see dead bodies on the streets,\" Rawoas, 47, says in Arabic. \"Sometimes gunfire would start on the street and I'd be trapped in my car. I would just say my prayers and prepare to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family fled to Jordan. First it was a temporary haven but, as they realized the conflict was not subsiding, they applied to the U.N. for refugee status. Obtaining it took more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family underwent background checks by agencies like Homeland Security and the FBI. There were fingerprints, iris scans and multiple interviews of each parent and child by U.N. and American officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For a White House infographic of the screening process for refugee entry into the U.S. click \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799643 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with a cat he adopted and called Simbad.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-400x306.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-768x588.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1440x1102.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-960x735.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamad Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with Simbad, a cat he recently adopted. Mohamad attends fourth grade at a public school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government screens Syrian refugees more thoroughly than almost anyone else applying to come into this country, and that process that can take years. That's one reason that fears of Syrian refugees are misplaced, says Kate Jastram, a UC Berkeley law professor who has worked on refugee issues for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not very likely that the enterprising terrorist is going to want to take that route to get to the U.S.,\" says Jastram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, governors of 31 states said in November that they object to admitting Syrian refugees. Officials in Texas sued the federal government to keep new refugee families out of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a much less welcoming environment than just a few months ago, when images of a drowned 3-year-old boy lying on a Turkish beach galvanized public attention to the plight of Syrians fleeing the war, says Karen Ferguson, executive director of the International Rescue Committee of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's been interesting is watching the country really swing as a pendulum,\" says Ferguson. \"There was such incredible compassion and swelling up of people's understanding of the plight of Syrian refugees. And then, unfortunately, the natural reaction of panic and fear that came with the Paris attacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, fears of terrorism have increased in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations says that anti-Muslim hate crimes have spiked nationwide in recent weeks. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/13309-cair-calls-for-condemnation-of-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-during-tonight-s-gop-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">attributes\u003c/a> these incidents in part to rhetoric by presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. \"until our country's representatives can figure out what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their cultural orientation classes, Ferguson's resettlement agency is now telling Syrian and Muslim refugees about how to handle potential aggression here in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if they experience something, to know that they don't have to respond and that they can bring that to the attention of their community members or the police,\" says Ferguson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799645 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ghaidaa Mousabacha visits with the Rawoas. Mousabacha volunteers to help Syrian refugee families in the East Bay with translations and other support.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghaidaa Mousabacha, from San Jose, visits with the Rawoas family. Mousabacha volunteers to help the Rawoas family and another Syrian refugee family in Oakland with translations and other support. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-American Ghaidaa Mousabacha, a middle school teacher from San Jose, has been helping refugee families like the Rawoases navigate life in their new home. Mousabacha admits that some members of her community are a little worried about extra scrutiny by airport security, or unfriendly looks from strangers. But Mousabacha says she has actually felt a lot of support recently from co-workers and even strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went to a church yesterday and I attended a choir celebration for Christmas,\" she says. \"And people who knew that I was Syrian, they all hugged me ... and I felt that they cared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Rawoas family say they haven't felt any discrimination either. Mostly they are just trying to adapt to a whole new language and culture. Mohammad Rawoas has found work as a delivery driver. Money is tight, but the family is finding a sense of community through the local mosque and through other Syrian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three younger kids, Batool, Bayan and Mohamad, are in school, and Hanan, the oldest, is studying English and working to continue her college education to become a pharmacist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Tuesday and Thursday I take a health care program and I prepare for the pharmacy technician examination board,\" Hanan says in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Mohammad Rawoas, believes Americans who still mistrust Syrians should get to know his family so they can change their minds. Rawoas says the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott -- who sued to bar Syrian refugees -- would be welcome to come to his home for a Syrian brunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will host him for the whole day, from morning to night,\" says Rawoas with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife hope their relatives still living in war-torn Syria might eventually gain refugee status here as well.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Safe from the horror of war, they now face mistrust of Syrians and Muslims by Americans fearing terrorism.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1486420636,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1206},"headData":{"title":"Syrian Refugee Family Adapts to Life in Oakland | KQED","description":"Safe from the horror of war, they now face mistrust of Syrians and Muslims by Americans fearing terrorism.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Syrian Refugee Family Adapts to Life in Oakland","datePublished":"2015-12-21T19:30:03.000Z","dateModified":"2017-02-06T22:37:16.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10799545 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10799545","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/21/syrian-refugee-family-adapts-to-new-life-in-oakland/","disqusTitle":"Syrian Refugee Family Adapts to Life in Oakland","path":"/news/10799545/syrian-refugee-family-adapts-to-new-life-in-oakland","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At her apartment in East Oakland, Rawaa Kasedah, 37, fries almonds in a deep pan. She adds them to the chickpea, pita bread and yogurt dish she is preparing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's called fatteh hummus,\" she says in Arabic. Her husband, Mohammad Rawoas, and their four children fill their plates with boiled eggs, olives and baba ghanoush already on the table. The meal is the \"perfect Syrian breakfast,\" they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six members of the Rawoas family arrived in the U.S. nine months ago as refugees. They are among the roughly 260 Syrian refugees who have been resettled in California since March 2011, when Syria's civil war began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238517553&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238517553'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Paris attacks last month sparked a controversy in the United States over whether to admit more Syrian refugees, and the resettlement program has come under fire from mostly Republican lawmakers and elected officials. In unconfirmed reports, one of the gunmen in Paris was alleged to have entered Europe by posing as a refugee with a Syrian passport, which authorities now recognize as fake, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/11/17/were-syrian-refugees-involved-in-the-paris-attacks-what-we-know-and-dont-know/\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Syria's civil war has forced over \u003ca href=\"http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php\" target=\"_blank\">4.3 million people\u003c/a> to register as refugees in asylum countries such as Egypt and Jordan, according to the United Nations The U.S. has admitted just \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrapsnet.org/Reports/InteractiveReporting/tabid/393/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2,310\u003c/a> since the conflict began, significantly fewer than countries like Germany and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the suburb of Damascus where the Rawoas family lived, Mohammed Rawoas owned and managed a clothing factory. He had to lay off all 50 employees when the area turned into a war zone. Three of Rawaa Kasedah's cousins were arrested and disappeared. Tanks rolled on the streets and sniper fire flew into the Rawoas home. Many of their neighbors were killed during bombings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would see dead bodies on the streets,\" Rawoas, 47, says in Arabic. \"Sometimes gunfire would start on the street and I'd be trapped in my car. I would just say my prayers and prepare to die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family fled to Jordan. First it was a temporary haven but, as they realized the conflict was not subsiding, they applied to the U.N. for refugee status. Obtaining it took more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family underwent background checks by agencies like Homeland Security and the FBI. There were fingerprints, iris scans and multiple interviews of each parent and child by U.N. and American officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For a White House infographic of the screening process for refugee entry into the U.S. click \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/11/20/infographic-screening-process-refugee-entry-united-states\">here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799643\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799643 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Mohammed Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with a cat he adopted and called Simbad.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1469\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-400x306.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-768x588.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1440x1102.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17869_IMG_9337_edited-qut-960x735.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamad Rawoas, 10, plays in his family's Oakland apartment with Simbad, a cat he recently adopted. Mohamad attends fourth grade at a public school. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The U.S. government screens Syrian refugees more thoroughly than almost anyone else applying to come into this country, and that process that can take years. That's one reason that fears of Syrian refugees are misplaced, says Kate Jastram, a UC Berkeley law professor who has worked on refugee issues for over 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not very likely that the enterprising terrorist is going to want to take that route to get to the U.S.,\" says Jastram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, governors of 31 states said in November that they object to admitting Syrian refugees. Officials in Texas sued the federal government to keep new refugee families out of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a much less welcoming environment than just a few months ago, when images of a drowned 3-year-old boy lying on a Turkish beach galvanized public attention to the plight of Syrians fleeing the war, says Karen Ferguson, executive director of the International Rescue Committee of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's been interesting is watching the country really swing as a pendulum,\" says Ferguson. \"There was such incredible compassion and swelling up of people's understanding of the plight of Syrian refugees. And then, unfortunately, the natural reaction of panic and fear that came with the Paris attacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, fears of terrorism have increased in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Council on American-Islamic Relations says that anti-Muslim hate crimes have spiked nationwide in recent weeks. The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.cair.com/press-center/press-releases/13309-cair-calls-for-condemnation-of-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-during-tonight-s-gop-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">attributes\u003c/a> these incidents in part to rhetoric by presidential candidate Donald Trump, who called for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. \"until our country's representatives can figure out what's going on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of their cultural orientation classes, Ferguson's resettlement agency is now telling Syrian and Muslim refugees about how to handle potential aggression here in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if they experience something, to know that they don't have to respond and that they can bring that to the attention of their community members or the police,\" says Ferguson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799645 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Ghaidaa Mousabacha visits with the Rawoas. Mousabacha volunteers to help Syrian refugee families in the East Bay with translations and other support.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/RS17870_IMG_9342.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghaidaa Mousabacha, from San Jose, visits with the Rawoas family. Mousabacha volunteers to help the Rawoas family and another Syrian refugee family in Oakland with translations and other support. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Syrian-American Ghaidaa Mousabacha, a middle school teacher from San Jose, has been helping refugee families like the Rawoases navigate life in their new home. Mousabacha admits that some members of her community are a little worried about extra scrutiny by airport security, or unfriendly looks from strangers. But Mousabacha says she has actually felt a lot of support recently from co-workers and even strangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went to a church yesterday and I attended a choir celebration for Christmas,\" she says. \"And people who knew that I was Syrian, they all hugged me ... and I felt that they cared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Rawoas family say they haven't felt any discrimination either. Mostly they are just trying to adapt to a whole new language and culture. Mohammad Rawoas has found work as a delivery driver. Money is tight, but the family is finding a sense of community through the local mosque and through other Syrian immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three younger kids, Batool, Bayan and Mohamad, are in school, and Hanan, the oldest, is studying English and working to continue her college education to become a pharmacist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Tuesday and Thursday I take a health care program and I prepare for the pharmacy technician examination board,\" Hanan says in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father, Mohammad Rawoas, believes Americans who still mistrust Syrians should get to know his family so they can change their minds. Rawoas says the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott -- who sued to bar Syrian refugees -- would be welcome to come to his home for a Syrian brunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will host him for the whole day, from morning to night,\" says Rawoas with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife hope their relatives still living in war-torn Syria might eventually gain refugee status here as well.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10799545/syrian-refugee-family-adapts-to-new-life-in-oakland","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_19005","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10799642","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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