MRM

Title: MRM
Type: Interview
Date: September 11th, 2019
Description: Rami Mardini is a 19 year old college student at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born in the United States; his mother migrated to the U.S. and when Rami was born, they shortly moved back to Syria to reunite with the rest of their family. He identifies as a Syrian-American with strong ties to his homeland of Syria, where a lot of his family still resides. With the war in Syria, Rami experienced many hardships that exist hand in hand with conflict, and had immense fear growing up in a country torn by war. Rami experienced bombings outside of his high school, and explains how terror became a normal part of his everyday life. He came to the United States with his triplet sisters, his grandmother, and his grandfather in order to advance his education with the intent of attending medical school and becoming a doctor. His parents stayed in Syria, and later joined him in the U.S. two years later.
Language: English
Subject: United States, Syria, 2019,OralHistory