About

Haneen Amer and her family fled from Iraq to Syria in 2007, when she was seven years old. In 2008, she and her family came to the United States, where they settled in Albuquerque. Haneen Amer was 13 years old, an 8th grader, when she wrote her poem To the Sun for her language arts class. She began high school in the fall of 2015.