An interview with Out of Exile editor Craig Walzer is featured today in The Rumpus.
We need to be able to digest and give people who are very far away the time and space to tell their story in their own words, rather than these hygienic CNN clips of a mother crying and saying we need supplies, or, ‘They came and burned our village in the middle of the night and we had to run.’ It’s so much more important to humanize things like that.
To read the interview, click here.
Also featured is an excerpt from Out of Exile, I Just Want to See It Through, the story of Alweel Kol:
I was only ten years old, so I didn’t know anything about a war. One evening, armed men came to our village to catch certain people. They attacked our home, tied up my father, and threw him to the ground.
To read her story, click here.
