Rawand Ahmad found it was not easy to turn the experience of flight, an emotional and complex topic, into a game, he says, describing the process as a constant balancing act between seriousness and play. — Marijan Murat/dpa
LUDWIGSBURG, Germany: When people are forced to leave their countries, their lives in danger, there are things they learn that they never forget.
Take the importance of information. If you are ever in a desperate situation and face the choice between a mobile phone and water, take the former, says Rawand Ahmad, who fled from Iraq with his family when he was a child.
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Rawand Ahmad found it was not easy to turn the experience of flight, an emotional and complex topic, into a game, he says, describing the process as a constant balancing act between seriousness and play. — Marijan Murat/dpa
Looking back, Ahmad says that all his life, people behaved as though his early experience of fleeing made him an expert on what that feels like, for him and for other people too. — Marijan Murat/dpa
Rawand Ahmad fled from Iraq with his family when he was a child. — Marijan Murat/dpa
Rawand Ahmad makes games so people can imagine what it is like to flee. — Marijan Murat/dpa
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