“A true-to-life tale of a girl half-Syrian, half-American…
A Western ambience joined her Syrian Muslim father to her American Christian mother in a marriage that didn’t last—
Producing three children: Mazen, Fatima, and finally, Ashia.
They endured a harsh, bleak childhood with a brutal, corrupt father and a mother who bore everything for their sake.
A secret event drove the father to abruptly take them back to Syria,
Ripping them from their mother completely for years.
They were left to the care of his family—
Only for him to return to the comfort of America under the guise of teaching his children Islam.
And so they grew up… in a barren childhood under a foreign sky.”
_ Yasmeen Thabet