Setting
The name of the refugee camp in When Stars are Scattered.
What is Dadaab?
Who is Hassan?
Omar and Hassan leave their home country for this reason.
A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
What is a refugee?
The special person Omar meets when Hassan runs away.
Who is his future wife?
The country where the refugee camp is located.
What is Kenya?
Omar and Hassan's foster mother.
Who is Fatuma?
Hassan suffers from this medical condition.
What are seizures?
A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
What is Brownie?
Camp Ifo
This character must leave school to get married.
Who is Maryam?
When Omar and Hassan arrive at Dadaab, they are taken care of by this person.
Who is Fatuma?
People who rise in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or rule.
What are rebels?
What are Khat leaves?
The country where Nimo is resettled.
This character is always singing and hopes to be resettled to Canada.
Who is Nimo?
This is the only word that Hassan ever says.
Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.
What is resilience?
Omar has this for the first time in his life during his initial UN interview.
What is a cold drink?
What are Camp Ifo, Dagahaley, and Hagadera?
The UN social worker who takes a special interest in Omar.
Who is Susanna Martinez?
This is the organization that runs the refugee camp.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
A burst of uncontrolled electrical activity between brain cells (also called neurons or nerve cells) that causes temporary abnormalities in muscle tone or movements.
What is a seizure?
This is the reason Maryam has to quit school.
What is to be married?