When an earthquake hit Turkey, Assalah Shikhani's family survived. But it didn't stop her children from asking hard questions about their dire situation.
An aerial view shows the destroyed buildings in the rebel-held town of Jindayris, Syria, on Feb. 9, 2023, three days after a deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.
There, she built a life for herself and her two children in Antakya, working as a teacher for a school run by the Karam Foundation, which helps Syrian refugees in Syria, Turkey and the U.S. “They said, ‘Mama, are we alive or dead now? Is this what you say is the afterlife? Why we are without shoes? Why is Allah doing this to us? Why [does] Allah want to torture us? What did we do?’”
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