The Refugee Monologue Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Refugee Monologue Project
A new podcast to present the monologues of Syrian refugees gathered by Fadi Skeiker for his play SY-Aspora.
Directed by: Kel Fleming
Featuring: Jackie Marino-Thomas
The monologue of Amar, a 25 year old Syrian, he is a refugee in the United States. Here he is educating his American classmate at the local community college about what happens in Syria.
Directed by: Teayra Bowden
Featuring: Leah Savin
The monologue of Fadia, a 55 year old teacher living in the suburb of Damascus. Most of her family are refugees in Germany. She is reminiscing her memories of Syria.
Directed by: Brittney Anderson
Featuring: Sarah Bastian
The monologue of Saad, a 35 year old Syrian refugee outside of Amsterdam. He is sharing his story to his therapist.
Directed by: Kelly Kreiger
Featuring: Roberto Delgado
The monologue of Khaled, a 60 year old nurse, who lives in Damascus. It is Spring of 2017. His children are refugees in the Netherlands. He is telling his neighbor about them.
Directed by: Bren Leone
Featuring: Christina Carelli
The monologue of Hala, a 65 year old retired art teacher, living as a refugee in Stockholm. She lives alone. We listen to him here talking with her friend in a coffee shop.
Directed by: Teayra Bowden
Featuring: Hayden Eric
The monologue of Hasan, a widower in his 70s living in a small town next to Aleppo, Syria. He is processing his future after his daughters have resettled in Germany and he remains in Syria.
Directed by: Kel Fleming
Featuring: Kaitlyn Zion
The monologue of Souad, a Syrian refugee Woman in her 70s living in Germany. She is telling her therapist why she stopped talking to her husband who is still in Syria.
Directed by: Kelly Kreiger
Featuring: Roberto Delgado
The monologue of Mamdouh, a 70 year old, retired teacher living in a small town close to Homs in Syria. He is on the phone with his daughter who is a Syrian refugee in Germany. He is asking his daughter to let him speak to his wife who stopped talking with him after she became a refugee in Germany.
Directed by: Bren Leone
Featuring: Aleah Beche
The monologue of Khlood, mid 20s. She is spending the night at her mother’s home in the suburbs of Damascus in June of 2014. She is here knocking at her mother’s bedroom, she just woke up from the sounds of bombs.
Directed by: Brittney Anderson
Featuring: Hannah Moore, Sarah Bastian, Jackie Marino-Thomas
Welcome to the opening monologue presented by the organizers of the Refugee Monologues Project. The organizers want you to understand that refugee stories are complicated and are not just written by refugees but also those they left behind. While the opening stories are related to the war in Syria between 2011 and 2019, refugees come from all parts of the world and experience the same feelings of hope, loss, nostalgia, longing, and inspiration.