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WATCH: What makes a “normal” teenager? Escaping Aleppo and growing up in Southern California

In Southern California, Dalya lives like most other teenagers: She attends high school, plays sports and hangs out at the mall. Unlike most teenagers there, however, she was displaced by the Syrian conflict and fled Aleppo with her family in 2012. Effervescent and opinionated Dalya is the focus of a new documentary “Dalya’s Other Country,” which tells the story of a Syrian immigrant teen and her family and explores a young person caught between highly politicized identities. When I see Dalya, I see my young boys and imagine the milestones they can look forward to: their first day of school, their first time behind the wheel, their first school dance.

 

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