The Resource Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker
Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker
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The item Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
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- Summary
- In 2012, Mohammad fled his Syrian village along with his wife and four sons, escaping to Jordan through the wilderness. Four years later he sat across from Shawn Smucker in a small conference room in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Though neither of them knew it, Mohammad had arrived in Shawn's life just in time. This is the story of a friendship. It is the story of a middle-aged writer struggling to make a living and a Syrian refugee struggling to create a life for his family in a strange and sometimes hostile land. It's the story of two fathers hoping for the best, two hearts seeking compassion, two lives changed forever. It's the story of our moment in history and the opportunities it gives us to show love and hospitality to the sojourner in our midst
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 195 pages
- Contents
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- Grains of sand
- Help
- The question
- Babel
- If we are lucky
- You are friends now
- The long walk
- Finding mohammad
- Finding hope
- Za'atari
- Do you remember?
- Neighbors
- Falling all around us
- Learning
- The unexpected guest (or, my first ramadan meal)
- Deeper into Jordan
- A place he will not see again
- Abba
- Smiling through it all
- Let's be neighbors
- Bring me your tired
- The good city
- The diagnosis and the cure
- Through trees and shadows
- Once we were strangers
- When are you coming back?
- Isbn
- 9780800734763
- Label
- Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor
- Title
- Once we were strangers
- Title remainder
- What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor
- Statement of responsibility
- Shawn Smucker
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 2012, Mohammad fled his Syrian village along with his wife and four sons, escaping to Jordan through the wilderness. Four years later he sat across from Shawn Smucker in a small conference room in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Though neither of them knew it, Mohammad had arrived in Shawn's life just in time. This is the story of a friendship. It is the story of a middle-aged writer struggling to make a living and a Syrian refugee struggling to create a life for his family in a strange and sometimes hostile land. It's the story of two fathers hoping for the best, two hearts seeking compassion, two lives changed forever. It's the story of our moment in history and the opportunities it gives us to show love and hospitality to the sojourner in our midst
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smucker, Shawn
- Dewey number
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- 277.48/15083092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BV4647.F7
- LC item number
- S68 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Smucker, Shawn
- Friendship
- Refugees
- Christianity and other religions
- Islam
- Christianity
- Friendship
- Interfaith relations
- Islam
- Refugees
- Syria
- Label
- Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Grains of sand -- Help -- The question -- Babel -- If we are lucky -- You are friends now -- The long walk -- Finding mohammad -- Finding hope -- Za'atari -- Do you remember? -- Neighbors -- Falling all around us -- Learning -- The unexpected guest (or, my first ramadan meal) -- Deeper into Jordan -- A place he will not see again -- Abba -- Smiling through it all -- Let's be neighbors -- Bring me your tired -- The good city -- The diagnosis and the cure -- Through trees and shadows -- Once we were strangers -- When are you coming back?
- Control code
- on1047575861
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780800734763
- Lccn
- 2018017117
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1047575861
- Label
- Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Grains of sand -- Help -- The question -- Babel -- If we are lucky -- You are friends now -- The long walk -- Finding mohammad -- Finding hope -- Za'atari -- Do you remember? -- Neighbors -- Falling all around us -- Learning -- The unexpected guest (or, my first ramadan meal) -- Deeper into Jordan -- A place he will not see again -- Abba -- Smiling through it all -- Let's be neighbors -- Bring me your tired -- The good city -- The diagnosis and the cure -- Through trees and shadows -- Once we were strangers -- When are you coming back?
- Control code
- on1047575861
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 195 pages
- Isbn
- 9780800734763
- Lccn
- 2018017117
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1047575861
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