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Refugeedom and its Effects on Mental Health & Maternal Attachment- An Integrative Project

Iman is a soon-to-be graduate from the Infant Mental Health Field and Developmental Practice field. This presentation showcases the different struggles refug...

TUMBLR, I finally presented my thesis presentation and thought I’d spread the knowledge around. DO YOUR THING PLEASE 

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2015

The thing about me and “New Years Resolutions” are – I suck at keeping them.

If I am supposed to lose weight, study harder, or worry less. .. I tend to do the exact opposite.

Last year, for New Years Eve, I wished for Nasim’s residency to be issued, so that we could start our lives. This year, as I spent the day cooking and preparing a New Year’s Eve feast for friends, I thanked God that it had…

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#Registration - Fake Injury

#Registration – Fake Injury

The next unusual thing we did as refugees, was we attended a wedding. My cousin Carmel married Nasim’s lifetime best friend Mobin, and many of our good friends from home attended. It was truly another good idea, another good way to start our refugee life. This delayed our registration by another 10 days.

We arrived in Ankara on the 6th of May, to register on the morning of the seventh.

The…

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Turkey?

Turkey? http://wp.me/s1jvaW-turkey

Turkey has this long-standing trade agreement with Iran, where Iranians can go to Turkey – visa free. For Iranians, this is a big deal, to come to a whole other country just for a visit, without a hassle. We do not have this option with many other places, when we were given a few days to leave the UAE, we knew we really didn’t have much of a choice but to come here. Packing for Turkey was a mess,…

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