Dijla Al-Rekabi is originally from Iraq. She immigrated to Canada in late 1996. Prior to that and after the 1991 Gulf War, she and her family spent about 6 years in a socially isolated refugee camp located on the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. In June 2006 Dijla obtained her double degrees in Linguistics and Sociology with Honors from the University of Calgary. Dijla is now a Student Service Coordinator at the University of Calgary and a Diversity and Learning Support Advisor with the Calgary Board of Education. Dijla has a wide range of interests starting with human rights, social justice, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees’s role in handling humanitarian crises, Arabic poetry and literature.

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