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Moving To Belmore, Sydney
Hazem El Masari had moved to Austarlia in 1988 he was from Lebanon and only 12 years old. Violence had surronded him constanley in Lebanon he had feelings of confusion, on how others pain can influence even more hatred this came from his feelings about the event in shopping centre in Tripoli "it was hard to believe that I had one been part of that madness". -
Getting into soccor
Hazem had struggled with his identity as being in culture shock, in how different Lebanon and Australia were. He states "being in a new country is not so much frightning as just plain confusing". As Hazem continued to get older he had his own morals to stay away from trouble, to not be swayed away morally and relgiously. He found a new kind of freedom when playing soccor a freedom that can help him ignore the struggles he faced as a lebanese-muslim. -
Getting in Trouble
Hazem had broken what he intially said he would stay away from and that was by getting into a fight. The fight had only esculated causing him to remember one advice "learn from your mistake and be a better person". Hazem introduced story right after he stated his morals, this was way to have a theme of people make mistakes. Specially as he was out of the club and now moved on with rugby league. -
The Gun
Using the gun anectode to end Hazem story is a relation to the beggining, again how violence surrounds him. When reaching towards the end, Hazem talks about the guys who pulled the gun coming for him. He states how "pride took over [his] tongue" and then finishes the story suddenly. This might because thats not what Hazem wants to focus on not on the violence but how his story is relatable to all the muslims are out there. -
Feeling of alienation
After the 9/11 attack muslims arround the world were shamed and alienated from society, Hazem expresses his fustration. The anectodes before were talking about not fitting in but after that event Hazem felt more targeted towards ignorance. He explains how the situation had made him feel confused as well stating "I was no capable of understanding it than anyone else". Hazem uses the word alienating to describe the experince as it was rather something that was stuck with muslims forever.