Ahmed Story
Hana Baba
News Reporter/Host, Crosscurrents
Today, we hear the story of how one Iraqi made his way to a hospital here in the Bay Area, his name is Ahmed Al Kubaisi. Ahmed is from Fallujah, where he lived across the street from an American military base. One day, while going to the local market Ahmed was shot by a stray bullet in the street. He was 15 years old.
Nadine Ajaka
Video by Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller, Lacy Jane Roberts
This short film by Luisa Conlon, Hanna Miller, and Lacy Jane Roberts chronicles how Al Kubaisi left his family behind and was resettled in the Bay Area in 2013 by the UN Refugee Agency. Predictably, he has complicated feelings to navigate about America—having suffered greatly during the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but also finding treatment and making friends upon moving.
