Of course, Alan Kurdi is the famous photo of the child on the shore. “Over the years … there were these images that were sort of seared into my head. He says he was inspired to write this story when reporting on the Arab Spring in 2012, and the ongoing refugee crisis. “I wanted to give it that feel of like a dreamlike journey, but at the same time, I didn’t want to look away from the specific details of what happens on these journeys in real life.” –Omar El Akkad They see each other, she decides in that instant to help them out because she can hear sort of these officers running and from that point forward.” He gets up and starts running, runs through a nearby forest and on the other side of the trees, sees the home where this 15-year-old-girl named Vanna is doing chores out in the yard. Amir opens his eyes, he sees the authorities, the soldiers, security officials, sort of who believe everyone is dead, but they see him and they come running towards him. The opening scene is of a shipwreck, a migrant shipwreck on the shores of an unnamed Western Island and the sole survivors a 9-year-old boy named Amir.
“It’s the story of Peter Pan reinterpreted as as a story about a contemporary child refugee. The story explores the refugee crisis from the eyes of children. WDET reporter and producer Nargis Hakim Rahman recently hosted an event for the National Writers Series with journalist and author Omar El Akkad about his Scotiabank Giller Prize winning book, “ What Strange Paradise,” which explores the story about a 9-year-old Syrian refugee named Amir Utu who washes up shore on a Greek island only to find Vanna Hermes to help him.
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