Deafness In Queen Rania

History goes to show that when people are in a crisis others tend to look the other way and not help those in need. The queen of Jordan Rania Al Abdullah wrote “Queen Rania: The Syrian refugees I met are experiencing something worse that death”(May 5,2016) analyzing what is happening in Syria right now and how no one is willing to listen to their outcry for help. Syrian refugees are facing something serious and they need to be heard; Abdullah is determined to give these people voices. People only decide to listen to the problem when it is too late and so many lives have been damaged or lost. Abdullah visits Kara Tepe camp inLesbos,Greece, during this trip she talks to refugees who made it out alive about their stories. On her trip she listens

In this article she talks about a Jose Saramago novel called “Blindness” and how it isn't that we can't see the problem it's more of we can't hear the problem, and she needs to write a book called “Deafness. Because no one is listening” (Abdullah, 2016, para. 4.). She is trying to give these people voices that deserved to be heard, “No one’s listening to the nearly 155,000 refugees who have risked their lives to reach Greece since the start of this year.” (Abdullah, 2016, para. 5) she tells us the amount of people who have struggled to get to where they are now. According the Abdullah the world isn't deaf, they just have selective hearing; instead of listening to the whole problem and laying all of the issues on the table, the world decides to pick and choose what issues are important and not treating all issues

These people just want a chance to not to be under attack and start fresh, but are unable because of death. Before these refugees were refugees, they were people, the had lives, jobs, children, and families who loved them. These refugees did not chose to be refugees, they were forced to become refugees to avoid death, and that is the problem. Yes, they are avoiding death, but they remain in a living nightmare. “I never felt safe - not for a single minute,” she whispered “I still don't.” (Maha, 2016, para. 6.), Abdullah gives quotes words from a 24-year-old gynecologist who had to hide her identity so ISIS wouldn't kill her. This woman will never feel safe even though she got away from Syria safely because these refugees that got away aren't living a normal lifestyle like everyone else, they constantly live in fear and when living in fear you will never feel safe. In the final analysis of this article, Abdullah was effective when letting the world know that the Syrian refugees are in need of help. Stating that the world needs to listen to their problems and address these situations instead of just throwing them to the side till the feel that these problems are important. Syrian refugees are going through so much and the world doesn't know enough about it, everyone needs to read this article just so they can see the emotions of these people through the stories they told