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Nadia is a Syrian American strategist and program leader based in Chicago. She has worked with Black Basalt Foundation as a strategic consultant and program lead, including on the Living Memory Award. The foundation is a U.S. nonprofit that uses art, memory, and storytelling to support minority communities affected by conflict, with a focus on southern Syria. She has 2 decades in advertising, communications and agency leadership across the Gulf, the Levant and North America, including co-founding Add Chapter. She is pursuing an MPA at the U. of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government.
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Married Willingly – by Nadia Muradi

NadiaMy grandmother was Kurdish. She was from Van, in what is now eastern Turkey. What my family has told me is that her parents were killed in the Ottoman-era violence there. As a child, early in the 1900s, she walked from Van to Aleppo, with an uncle and her younger sister. My aunts say she was holding her sister’s hand. Somewhere along the way, her sister was lost and never found. In Aleppo, while she was still a child, her guardians married her off to a much older man.

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