Children's & YA
I Will Live at Peace
by Dr. Issam Smeir, Luma Azar. Illustrator: Hanane Kai
Description
AMAL (Hope) Series
Almost 500 million children live in an area of conflict or disaster, 50 million of them were displaced. Prolonged exposure to war and uncertainty put many children in a state of ‘toxic stress’, with hugely detrimental effects. If left untreated, the long-term consequences are likely to be even greater, affecting children’s mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing for the rest of their lives.
A series of nine specialized books dealing with the topic of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This Bibliotherapy series was written and designed based on PTSD therapy modality directed at children who suffer psycho-social challenges.
The books are written in an adventurous style with a clinical connection that introduces the child to various symptoms, providing methods for dealing with them. It also presents coping mechanisms that help the child deal with the symptoms to have improvements throughout the stages of treatment. It also includes activities at the end of each book for caregivers to use with the child.
Story 2: I Will Live at Peace
Ever Since the terrible thing happened to Saleem and his family, he has been seeing nightmares which affected his ability to concentrate on his studies. And therefore, Saleem gets scared all over again and relives the incident every time he is reminded of the incident: any image, or sound, or scent, even any word.
One day Saleem meets someone who has also gone through a terrible thing, and that person had felt exactly like he is feeling. From this experience, Saleem realizes that not everything that scares him is real danger and remembering the terrible incident, is by no means a re-occurrence of it.
Saleem feels relieved now; he understands that he can live at peace without constant fear.
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The Project is approved by UNHCR and they are testing the stories with traumatized children
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Author Biography
Idea: Dr. Issam Smeir, EdD, LCPC
Dr. Issam Smeir is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who specializes in trauma treatment for refugees, victims of torture and severely abused and neglected children. He holds a doctorate degree in Counseling and Clinical Supervision from NIU, and post doctorate training in Global Mental Health Trauma with Refugees from Harvard University. He is an expert in the Narrative Exposure Therapy approach.
Dr. Smeir worked in the past for several non-profit relief organization and his trauma and relief work took him to over 40 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, Persian Gulf and North Africa. In 2008, Issam became the National Clinical Consultant for World Relief in the US working directly with refugees from 23 countries and training World Relief staff in areas of trauma and cultural competency. His work with refugees such as the Somali Bantu population was featured on CNN, Washington Post, New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Written by: Luma Azar
A published writer who currently works as a visual art consultant in Haya Cultural Center, Amman. In 2009, she won the grant of “Mohammed bin Rashid Foundation”, under “Oktob” (Write) program, for her work on her first series “I am Special” which comprises of 4 titles.
Two of her later titles “I Wish I Were a Potato” and “I Drew a Dot” were enlisted in “101 Children’s Books” 2011 list, which is published by Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean foundation.
Illustrator: Hanane Kai
A Lebanese art director, illustrator, and graphic designer specialized in children's publishing and editorial publishing. Her clients range from big corporations like Facebook, Pearson, BBC, INC magazine, Hachette, as well as small independent publishers. Hanane won a number of international awards from which Bologna Ragazzi award in 2016, Sharjah Children’s Book award in 2016, and has been shortlisted to several awards from which World Illustration Award for 4 consecutive years, and Etisalat Award in 2016 and 2018.
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Jabal Amman Publishers
Jabal Amman Publishers has been a leader in the marketplace, setting the barfor excellence in knowledge publishing. We aspire to revive reading culture inthe Arab world, advancing education in the region. To this end we produce booksthat will empower our readers, bettering their lives as well as challenging falseperspectives that impede development. We are intent on elevating the Arabicbook and other media to the highest level of quality in terms of both content andlook. Jabal Amman Publisher won the best SME in Jordan 2019.
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- Publisher Jabal Amman Publishers
- Publication Date November 2020 - April 2021
- Orginal LanguageArabic, English
- ISBN/Identifier 9789923120569
- Publication Country or regionJordan
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 8 USD
- Pages56
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleArabic
- Original Language AuthorsArabic
- Edition1st
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size25X21 (25X21) cm
- IllustrationIllustrations from Award Winning Illustrator Hanane Kai. The Illustrations become more saturated as the story continues in reference to healing.
- SeriesYes
- Series Part2
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