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IRAQ / BACK TO SCHOOL
STORY: IRAQ / BACK TO SCHOOL
TRT: 02:17
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC/ NATS
DATELINE: 22 NOVEMBER 2016, QAYYARAH, IRAQ
1. Wide shot, children digging outside town
2. Wide shot, Nisreen walks with her friends near her home
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“I used to be in the 6th grade but then ISIL destroyed our lives. Before I was going to school and I was happy. I met my friends and studied with them. I miss them a lot.”
4. Close up, Nisreen’s face as she is studying
5. Close up, Nisreen’s traces her finger in her textbook as she reads
6. Wide shot, Nisreen sits and studies with friends
7. Med shot, Nisreen walks with friends
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“ISIL harassed us so much we had to leave our houses. Our town became a battlefield.”
9. Wide shot, town of Qayyarah with smoke in the background.
10. Med shot, Tareq walking on his property
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“The situation was bad. They humiliated us. There was no food. They restricted us in all our activities.”
12. Med shot, Tareq sorts through his supplies
13. Med shot, sheep grazing
14. Med shot, Nisreen in class
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“When we went to school under ISIL, they gave us books about weapons. The books they gave us to read were meant to destroy our way of life.”
16. Med shot, a girl in class
17. Wide shot, Nisreen and friends playing at her home.
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“This is not education. They teach children about war!”
19. Wide shot, children on the school grounds.
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“School is a mother, it teaches us.”
21. Med shot, Nisreen arriving at school
22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“I am really happy.”
23. Close up, a girl in class
24. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“The schools are open and they’re going to learn!”
25. Wide shot, teacher leading a class.
26. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“Under ISIL, I didn’t allow them to go to school. Now I want them to return to their studies.”
27. Wide shot, Tareq with several children.
Nisreen went back to school in Qayyarah, Iraq, after the town was retaken from under ISIL’s oppressive rule in August of 2016.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“I used to be in the 6th grade but then ISIL destroyed our lives. Before I was going to school and I was happy. I met my friends and studied with them. I miss them a lot.”
Tareq, one of the family elders, refused to let the children go to ISIL schools and be indoctrinated.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“ISIL harassed us so much we had to leave our houses. Our town became a battlefield. The situation was bad. They humiliated us. There was no food. They restricted us in all our activities.”
Education under ISIL was all about war.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“When we went to school under ISIL, they gave us books about weapons. The books they gave us to read were meant to destroy our way of life.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“This is not education. They teach children about war!”
As ISIL retreated from a town that they had controlled for more than two years, they lit nearby oil wells on fire, filling the air with a toxic smoke.
But now, Nisreen can finally go back to school and prepare for her future.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nisreen, Student:
“School is a mother, it teaches us.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tareq, Nisreen’s Father:
“I am really happy. The schools are open and they’re going to learn! Under ISIL, I didn’t allow them to go to school. Now I want them to return to their studies.”
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