The Storyteller of Casablanca

by Fiona Valpy

there’s so much fighting going on in the world when it’s perfectly possible for a Jewish boy to be friends with a Muslim girl and a lapsed Catholic-Jewish girl.

‘We like to think we learned lessons from those wars and yet history continues to repeat itself, year after year.’

the refugees – they are all around, but we don’t usually open our eyes and ears wide enough to perceive them.

But to solve the problem entirely would take something unimaginable: it would take governments working together, an end to war and famine, political stability throughout the whole region. It’s not in our power to make that happen, not in our lifetime. And so, although it’s not a solution to the underlying problem, we have to do what we can.