He and his family immigrated to Turkey, bringing just the essentials with them across the border - a fairly easy task according to Ahmed. In addition to Noor, a father named Ahmed told his story in “Something Like Home.” Ahmed left Syria with his family because the war zone grew closer to their neighborhood. “And we had a really powerful story in Noor. “ reached out to me and said, ‘I’d like you to get some pictures of some of our users,’ and then I said, ‘Alright, take me to them.’ Then the dilemma became which countries do we start with?” Merriman said. Merriman said that once they were sent out to meet these people, the idea grew into something much larger than they originally imagined. Luis von Ahn, CEO of Duolingo, spoke to the audience after the film screening and said the company received thousands of letters from users telling their stories about learning new languages in order to discover their sense of purpose and assimilate in their new homes. “My camera is my greatest weapon, and it’s really an honor and a privilege to be welcomed into people’s homes and be able to tell a little bit about their lives and share that with other people to help make a difference for them and others.” “My philosophy going into it was always to just tell the story of the subjects and to meet people and to give them a voice,” he said. Merriman decided to include her in his film because of her persistent spirit and dedication to educate herself.
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Noor has since relocated to Turkey, where she works as both a software engineer and an Android instructor. Currently, 6.1 million people are internally displaced - half of whom are children. And after that, fighting started.”Īccording to a data portal provided by the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, more than 5.6 million Syrians have fled their country due to the outbreak of civil war. “You can’t believe it when it comes to you. In the film, she details her experience in 2013 walking home from the market with her sister when she saw a car bomb explode on her street. Noor is a software engineer who fled Syria after its civil war made the nation too dangerous for her and her family to live there safely. Afterward, Duolingo team members led a short on-stage discussion with one of the four refugees featured in the film, a Syrian woman named Noor. More than 350 people attended the event, which consisted of an hour of Middle Eastern hors d’oeuvres before the film screening. “Something Like Home” premiered Tuesday night to a packed house at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty, just across the street from Duolingo’s new headquarters on Penn Avenue.
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