Rasha Zayoun, based on an interview in Belgrade, 2 October 2007
I was born in 1990. I don’t know which day or month, but I know that I am 17 years old. I come from Maaraka Sour, a small village some 15 km from Sour (Tyr) in South Lebanon. I am the second of five children, four sisters and one brother. My brother is the oldest. He is 20 years old. My father is 50 years old and my mother 49 years old. They look really old, much older than their real age. My parents do not really work, they are exhausted and sick.