The Rehumanize Memorial Quilt

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"I feel good about dedicating something to a girl that died. I made a garden, at night and at the day. And I made a bed with a side table, and a pond with fish and some flying creatures. I drew a flower because Zina wanted a flower on her grave." Alana, 9. Brooklyn, NY.

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The Quilt
The following seven squares were made in a workshop at the Center for Anti-Violence Education in Park Slope, Brooklyn; May, 2003:
Abas Khalid Hussein, 2 years old. By Carina, 9	Noor Al-Huda Saad, 4 months. By Courtney, 8	Hassan Ayad Hamoodi, 9 years old. By Andrew
Nora Tamani. By Ariel, 6	Zina Akram Hamoodi, 12 yrs. old. By Alana, 9	Rowand Suleiman, 8 months old. By Shalini, 17
Lamiya, 6 years old, from Baghdad. By Georgia, 9	"You can sort of get to feel how a family or relative feels when their child dies." Carina, 9. "Making a quilt because someone dies. . . feels like you actually capture them in the quilt and they live again." Georgia, 9. "I'm sad that her mom and her died at the same time." Courtney, 8. "It's a creative way of displaying what's real. Many people are suffering. People of all ages, races and beliefs. This quilt allows people to recognize that." Jadé, 17.	For 6 Children, who were killed while dismantling a rocket on May 12, 2003.

The following squares were made at or following the Rehumanize event at the 2003 Howl Festival in New York:
For Arkan Majid, of Al-Khamouq, who died on April 15. By Luke and Amelia.	For an unnamed girl, aged 2. By Lucas.	For Duaa Raheem, age 6, from Karbalah, who died on April 2, 2003. By Jasmine.
For Ali and Reni Kadem, grandparents of a family of 12 killed in a raid in Nasiriya, March 23, 2003. By Stephanie from Maine.	For the niece of Bakhat Hassan, 12, killed with her family 35 miles south of Karbala on March 31. By Yaalieth from New York.	For Tabarek Abbas, 8 years old, who died with her two sisters in Awa, a suburb of Baghdad, on April 13, 2003. By Marne from Brooklyn.
The following squares were made at the 2003 Brooklyn Peace Fair:
For Ali Salim. By Mina.	For 12 people who were killed. By Jade.	For Zainab Hamoodi, killed with his family on April 5, 2003 in Basra. By Debi.
The following squares were made at or following a Peacetalks event at the Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, in November of 2003:
10 year-old from Hawija. By Suzannah.	For SPC José Perez. By Aram.	2 protesters killed in Baghdad on June 18, 2003. By Sierra.
For Amir Madlul. By Stephen.	For Mohammed Ahmed, age 4. By Samira from Queens.
The following squares have been mailed to us:
For Baby Hamza. By Suzy from Ohio.	"This square is for Marwa, Tabarek and Safia Abbas, 3 sisters killed as they slept." By Emily from Brooklyn, NY.
For Karaih Hamoodi, aged 70, killed with her family in Basra on April 5, 2003. By Gail from Maryland.	For a family. By Chandra from Brooklyn, NY.
For ten children killed in Fallujah on March 29, 2003. By Brook, Jason, Evelyn, Simon, Ramala, Brownie, Annie, Hannah and Sarah from the Chester River Friends Meeting First Day School in Chestertown, Maryland.		By Beth from Brooklyn.
The following quilt squares were made by the co-founders of the Rehumanize Quilt:
For Fatehah Ghazzi, 8 years old, killed on her farm in Nahrawaan, on March 24, 2003. By Kristin.	For 60 people killed from March 2-April 4 at Al Zuba Hospital. By Cyra.	For 54-61 civilians killed when a missile hit a market. By Kristin.
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