For Muslim children, Eid al-Adha is one of the best weeks of the year. The holiday celebrates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son to prove his devotion to God. Muslims celebrate the holiday by slaughtering an animal and sharing the meat with relatives, neighbors, and the poor. At the end of the week, the toy […]
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How do you tell your daughter that some families, in fact, disown their daughters? That you can still love a country even when it does not love you back? If there are answers to these questions, I don’t know them, so I go with something simple: “Because he doesn’t like that I married Mommy.” I
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From Here is a memoir written by Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian American businesswoman and soccer coach. In the book, Mufleh recounts her experience as a refugee who came to the United States in the 1980s and built a new life for herself. Mufleh shares her journey of navigating the challenges of being an immigrant in
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“Learning America” is a book written by Luma Mufleh. It is a memoir about her journey from a privileged life in Jordan to her service as a coach for a soccer team in a refugee resettlement community in Clarkston, Georgia. The book covers her experiences in the United States as an immigrant, her interactions with
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The Lucky Ones” is a personal account that tells the story of Shaida, an Afghan woman, and her journey to the United States with her children to escape the brutalities of the Taliban. The narrator, who is a coach, becomes close to Shaida’s family and listens to their harrowing experiences. Shaida reveals that her husband
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In the spring of 2004, the narrator found themselves in the parking lot of a rundown apartment complex in Clarkston, Georgia, by mistake. In a hurry and frustrated, they decided to make a U-turn when they noticed a group of barefoot boys playing soccer with a raggedy ball and makeshift goalposts. This sight reminded the
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The prologue of Learning America by Luma Mufleh is a poignant introduction to the story of a woman who finds herself in a refugee resettlement community in Clarkston, Georgia, and discovers a group of boys playing soccer. The book is a memoir that chronicles Mufleh’s journey of building a soccer team, the Fugees Family, with
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As a child, I lived in Jordan, a country where being gay was illegal and socially unacceptable. I didn’t know anyone who was openly gay, and I certainly didn’t understand the struggles they faced. It wasn’t until I moved to the United States and started coaching a soccer team made up of refugee boys that
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The story revolves around the experiences of the author’s grandmother and mother as refugees from Syria. The grandmother had limited formal education but had to flee Syria with her children due to civil unrest and a violent military coup. The mother faced difficulties in adjusting to a new country, Jordan, where she was treated as
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Weeks after Shaida shared her family’s story, a series of events unfolded that shed light on the harsh realities faced by some of the young players on Luma’s soccer team, the Fugees. One evening, while driving Jerome home, Luma noticed him holding his stomach and discovered that he was hungry because there was no food