Feras Saedam and Syria

Feras: He landed in Canada 18 months ago with his wife and young children, refugees from bloodstained Syria, according to Hamilton Spectator. The family has faced challenges in their adopted country — for Feras, one incident in Hamilton was traumatic — but in at least one sense they are among the lucky ones: They arrived long before the terrorist massacre in Paris, and the smouldering backlash against Syrian refugees that may delay or halt migration to Europe and the U.S. . The family road ahead, while not easy, is infinitely more promising than the one they were on before. But Feras Saedam did not express these feelings after starting a new life here, he wrote those poems when he was a university student in Damascus. Hamilton resident Feras Saedam recounts his escape from Syria "What are you " This was early in 2012, aboard a bus on a 14-hour trip to a refugee camp northeast of Damascus in Syria. A man stood in the aisle questioning him — he was armed but wore no military uniform, he was an intelligence officer. Feras had fallen asleep but was awakened with his wife and children at one of many checkpoints. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.