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Double or nothing: Noor Ghazi on Arab American identities
“It was my sweet sixteenth birthday,” Noor said, recounting the day that she and her family escaped Iraq. They crossed the Rubicon, the point of no return, into Syria as Iraq’s civil war raged on.  Despite the cultural and linguistic ties the two neighbours share, in Syria Noor experienced homesickness and her first culture shock. “When they spoke to me in their dialect I felt excluded from the conversation, and yet Iraq was always brought up.” "Even after finding solace in the US, Iraq’s legacy still dominated Noor’s thinking. Unable to suppress the anguish of ‘Ghasa’; which in Arabic describes a propulsive pain that lodges itself in the throat, Noor returned to Iraq

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