On the way to Sweden - Khawla Badr

Pages: 112 pages

publisher: Sameh Publishing House

What does the road to Sweden look like? The intended path here is the long road fraught with suffering and dangers, extending from the Yarmouk camp at the southern edge of the Syrian capital, Damascus, to Sweden in northern Europe. Within the convoys of refugees carried by the great waves of refugees that swept from Syria towards the European continent, countless numbers of Palestinian refugees who were forced to leave their camps all over Syria fled. The largest number of them left the Yarmouk camp, which is the largest population center for Palestinians outside of Palestine, which is called Palestine Lesser. So, it can be said that the Palestinian refugee, the heroine of this novel, who was forced by the raging war in Syria to leave the Yarmouk camp, her parents’ refuge and their second home after the first refugee journey from Palestine, can be said to be a refugee twice, tortured several times, and the heir to a long history of extended asylum. Khawla Badr narrates in “The Road to Sweden” through the protagonist of this novel the details of the journey to reach Sweden, the safe country, and the great dangers and hardships during that journey, including crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece on a rickety boat that almost drowned in it