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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

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
Creator
Author
Subject
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
  • 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
Instantiates
Publication
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
Label
Once we were strangers : What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor, Shawn Smucker
Publication
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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