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A Refugee's Story
Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Lonnie Isabel.
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[audio:http://cdn.journalism.cuny.edu/blogs.dir/60/files/2009/06/20090522_reporters_notebook_ep02.mp3] A war has a way of changing just about every life it comes near. Alaa Majeed was a house wife at the start of the 2003 Iraqi invasion. She had a husband, two young sons and a successful dress shop in Baghdad. “A normal life,” Majeed says.