Now a case manager at the Red Cross in Princeton, Hassan Al Kontar took his oath on Wednesday in a virtual ceremony from his hotel room
Hassan Al Kontar — a young Syrian refugee who was trapped in arrivals at Kuala Lumpur International Airport for seven months in stateless limbo, and
“It’s more than ,” he says. “It doesn’t come once a year. It’s permanent for me now. It’s a celebration of life.” Al Kontar has not seen his family since the day the war broke out, although they now video chat constantly. Though he has faced racism, discrimination, interrogations, jail and terrible treatment at the hands of governments, he says his biggest regret is absence from family and not being there when his father died.Photo by Paul Couvrette
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