Salima Stanley-Bhanji: Artist wants Calgarians to walk a mile in refugees’ shoes

Salima Stanley-Bhanji: Artist wants Calgarians to walk a mile in refugees' shoesBy Aaron Chatha for Metro – Sun Oct 25 2015O: On Salima Stanley-Bhanji’s last day in Jordan, after spending weeks talking with Syrian refugees about their experiences, one of her translators opened up about his own life experience as a Syrian refugee.

Rather than conduct the interview herself, Bhanji asked one of her other translators, also from Syria, to ask the questions.

“The dialogue we saw between these two Syrian refugees, who didn’t know each other prior to this, was just so remarkable,” she said. “Afterwards, we asked the interviewer how it felt for him to ask questions and to receive those answers from a position similar to him.“

He said, ‘You know, when I hear these stories, my skin begins to crawl and I feel like I’m going to lose control.’ And at that point he began to tear up.

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