Interview with Hayfaa Ibrahem Abdulqadar, March 23, 2019
Project: I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Hayfaa Ibrahem Abdulqadar shares her experiences as a refugee who fled from Baghdad, Iraq in 2005, first to Jordan, then to Philadelphia in 2009. She came to Jordan with her husband, Bajhat Abdulwahed, and her adult daughter, who is now a news announcer in Jordan. Both Hayfaa and Bajhat had worked in broadcast journalism in Baghdad. She describes their arrival in Philadelphia and how they got settled with the help of Nationalities Services Center. She recalls her husband’s illness and death. She shares some details from her life in Iraq in the 1960s and '70s, when she worked as a news announcer, was first married, and was a new mother.Interview Accession
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Immigrants Philadelphia (Pa.) Iraq Jordan Iraq War, 2003-2011. Baghdad (Iraq) Families Careers Emigration and immigrationInterview Rights
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Abdulqadar, Hayfaa Ibrahem Interview by Janneken Smucker. 23 Mar. 2019. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Abdulqadar, H.I. (2019, March 23). Interview by J. Smucker. I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Abdulqadar, Hayfaa Ibrahem, interview by Janneken Smucker. March 23, 2019, I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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