April Brings Ramadan, Big Little Lies, and a Six-Word Search for Rain (Lots of It)
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“Ramadan: No water? Not even air!”— a Backstory We Love While living in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago, I met Sara Abou Rashed, a 17-year-old Palestinian-Syrian-American, at a teen writing workshop I was leading. That night, Sara wrote a Six-Word Memoir: “Escaped war; war never escaped me.” Later, I asked her to share a backstory to those six words at a “Six Words Live” story show. A year later, she performed an expanded, show-stopping version of the story at Manhattan’s Tenement Museum of immigration. And after the show Sara enjoyed her first slice of NYC pizza and we hatched a plan for what would become
April Brings Ramadan, Big Little Lies, and a Six-Word Search for Rain (Lots of It)
April Brings Ramadan, Big Little Lies, and a…
April Brings Ramadan, Big Little Lies, and a Six-Word Search for Rain (Lots of It)
“Ramadan: No water? Not even air!”— a Backstory We Love While living in Columbus, Ohio a few years ago, I met Sara Abou Rashed, a 17-year-old Palestinian-Syrian-American, at a teen writing workshop I was leading. That night, Sara wrote a Six-Word Memoir: “Escaped war; war never escaped me.” Later, I asked her to share a backstory to those six words at a “Six Words Live” story show. A year later, she performed an expanded, show-stopping version of the story at Manhattan’s Tenement Museum of immigration. And after the show Sara enjoyed her first slice of NYC pizza and we hatched a plan for what would become