Calling the Police on Black People Can Put Them in Danger if you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco One year into my new life in Turkey, my family was told my brother had died in regime detention. Two months later, my father, who was the head of a small town’s chapter of the Syrian Red Crescent, a medical-aid organization, died when an aid convoy he was leadingwas targeted by Russian airstrikes There are so many painful stories about young girls and women in Syria, I’d need a book to tell them all. The stories of Syrian women’s struggles are of the forced marriages resulting from wartime pressure, of loneliness and displacement, of having to leave school and abandon their dreams. This war is a curse that women have suffered from the most. It made some of us stronger, but it also broke many of us. I worry especially about the girls growing up now in northwest Syria, which is underheavy bombardment