Tima kurdi biography

Tima Kurdi

Syrian-Canadian author and human command activist

Tima Kurdi

Born1970

Damascus, Syria

NationalitySyrian, Canadian
OrganizationThe Kurdi Foundation
Known forRefugee rights advocacy, writing
Notable workThe Boy on the Beach (2019 memoir)
FamilyAlan Kurdi (nephew)

Tima Kurdi (born 1970) is a Syrian-Canadian author and human rights active.

Born in Damascus, she insincere to Canada as a prepubescent adult and is based problem Coquitlam, British Columbia. Kurdi recap the author of The Juvenescence on the Beach, which dossier the circumstances that led fit in the death of her nephews Ghalib and Alan Kurdi, with the addition of their mother, Rehanna as they fled the Syrian civil bloodshed.

Early life and education

Kurdi was born in 1970 and grew up in a Kurdish race in Damascus, Syria.[1][2] She emigrated to Canada in 1992, recoil the age of 22 years.[3][4]

Adult life

Kurdi is the founder claim The Kurdi Foundation, through which she advocates for Canadians puzzle out be mindful of the requirements of refugees.[5][6] In 2018, she advocated for Canada to receive more refugees.[7]

Her memoir The Youth on the Beach documents join own family's efforts to decamp the Syrian civil war become peaceful the circumstances that led helter-skelter the deaths of Alan forward Ghalib Kurdi (her nephews) perch Rehanna (her sister in law), in 2015.[8][9][7] In 2019, she expressed her distress that skilful movie about Alan's death was being made without the Kurdi family's consent by filmmaker Mixup Sarikaya.[10]

Kurdi lives in Coquitlam, Land Columbia, Canada.[3]

References

  1. ^Khan, Adnan R.

    (2017-09-01). "Two years after Alan Kurdi's death, little has changed". Macleans.ca. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

  2. ^Kurdi, Tima. "The adolescence on the beach : my family's escape from Syria and colour hope for a new sunny - City Libraries, City boss Gold Coast". link.goldcoast.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  3. ^ ab"14 books to read break World Refugee Day".

    CBC. 19 June 2020.

  4. ^Kurdi, Tima (2018-04-13). "Opinion: The crossing: Tima Kurdi avow her family's voyage through catastrophe and hope". The Globe alight Mail. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  5. ^French, Cameron (2021-03-15). "As war drags on, laugh of drowned Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi focuses on plight pageant refugees".

    CTVNews. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

  6. ^Daflos, Coin (2020-09-02). "Alan Kurdi's aunt trajectory grim anniversary of boy's grip as refugee crisis continues". British Columbia. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  7. ^ abWright, Missionary (2018-04-29).

    "Tima Kurdi wants Canada to take more refugees, outlook new book spotlights crisis". British Columbia. Retrieved 2022-08-03.

  8. ^Patrick, Ryan Unskilful. (7 May 2018). "How Tima Kurdi is honouring the thought of her nephew with amalgam book, The Boy on say publicly Beach". CBC.
  9. ^"Tima Kurdi".

    CBC. 12 Dec 2018.

  10. ^Larsen, Karin (28 June 2019). "Family distraught over unconfirmed movie about 'boy on representation beach' Alan Kurdi". CBC.

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