Nodji's Story

Naji's mamma told him, if the soldiers come again and they think you're a kid, they won't take you. Naji said during this whole period, he felt this constant pressure that he was the family's protector. He would have this recurring dream the troops stormed his house and he'd have to grab a knife from the kitchen counter defend his grandmother  and his little siplings. And one day, as nodgi tells it, he's getting ready to go out, and his sister amal, who's a year younger than him, says, he you always get to be the one that gets to go along? And he says, it's not