Oudai

A very happy holiday season, and Happy New Year from everyone at MIRA — and especially from Oudai, who is excited that his beloved family will be joining him soon. ​THE MIRA TEAM WISHES YOU A JOYOUS AND PEACEFUL 2019!!! OudaiAge: 26 Country of Origin: Syria Host Country: Germany Civil Status: Married to Alaa, with two children (wife and children in Jordan)

A VIRTUAL HOME My self-confidence is deteriorating every day in front of the Parliament dome. My predictions never failed me. At last, the parliament voted to bring in 1,000 persons from Syria’s neighboring countries. The total number of protected persons in Germany is 65,000 persons and they are all waiting for family unification and I

Now it has been 20 months since my arrival in Germany and finally I got an ID and a passport to identify myself. This will warm up my feelings during the cold weather. I am continuing to learn advanced German and counting the hours until I reunite with my family. According to my papers, I

Now we are in the immigration processing center getting ready to be registered and then divided into groups. Each group will take the train heading to a German province… My destiny took me to Hamburg in the North West. I arrived at noon at the central station, where I met an old friend who suggested

We took a break for one full hour, and at that point you could see light on the horizon — morning had come. A car came by and we stopped it. The man inside said we were far from the city and where the refugees were staying. But he was heading back there and would

On our mobile phone we were using the GPS to see if were still on track, but none of us was trained to do this. The situation was very similar to the Titanic but we had no captain to steer us. We had to rely on what we had seen in Hollywood movies and cartoons,

It was now 11 pm, the air was cold and the sea relatively calm with light waves. Lights shimmered on the surface of the water. We hid in between the bushes on the beach while the rubber boat was prepared. This was the second attempt and it had to succeed. A Coast Guard patrol passed

Outside my friend waits for me. I get into his car and we depart towards the airport in Amman, almost an hour away from my home. After exiting the urban areas, the roads become empty and surrounded by plains. The memories of my first entry to Jordan come back to me — when my wife

My flight was at 1:00 pm on Friday leaving to Sabeha Airport in Turkey.  I had to be at the airport three hour before departure. One of my friends volunteered to drop me off. At 9:30 am he came and told me to get ready and say goodbye to everybody. I will never forget these