ESL Student & Teacher Nominated for 2018 G G Award for Literacy

Syrian refugee Abu Bakr Al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung his ESL teacher turn writing exercises into nomination for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

Homes is a memoir of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah's childhood in Iraq and Syria.

Now at 15 and a high school student in Edmonton, Alberta, al Rabeeah tells his stories of Iraq before the civil war broke out, when the al Rabeeah family left Iraq for safety in Homs, Syria and when the violence began in his new home.

Links to GG Nominations and the CBC story

Syrian refugee and his ESL teacher turn writing exercise into literary nomination

The finalists for the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction

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