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Misbaha Prayer Beads of Walid

My name is Walid and I am a refugee from Idlib, Syria.

The object presents a part of my migration story, they are prayer beads that are referred to as Misbaha and are used to keep count during prayer. These prayer beads were given to me as a goodbye present by my friend Ahmed when I left Idlib. I moved to the port city Latakia in Syria and stayed there for nine years.

I lived with my family but…

Contributors

  • Walid

Subject

  • Immigration to Belgium
  • Emigration from Syria
  • …
  • Human migration
  • Syria
  • Belgium
  • Religious practice
  • Refugees
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Customs and traditions
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/1b2ec4d0-0a71-0136-56af-6a77df253875#agent-1b2f46a0-0a71-0136-56af-6a77df253875

Contributors

  • Walid

Subject

  • Immigration to Belgium
  • Emigration from Syria
  • …
  • Human migration
  • Syria
  • Belgium
  • Religious practice
  • Refugees
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Customs and traditions
  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/1b2ec4d0-0a71-0136-56af-6a77df253875#agent-1b2f46a0-0a71-0136-56af-6a77df253875

Providing institution

  • Europeana Foundation

Aggregator

  • Europeana Foundation

Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)

  • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Places

  • Idlib, Syria
  • Brussels, Belgium
  • City of Brussels
  • Brussels-Capital Region

Identifier

  • http://contribute.europeana.eu/contributions/1b2ec4d0-0a71-0136-56af-6a77df253875
  • 612

Language

  • eng
  • en

Is part of

  • Europeana Migration Collection Day: Brussels, House of European History, Brussels, 2018-03-15–2018-03-17

Providing country

  • Europe

Collection name

  • 2084002_Ag_EU_Migration_ugc

First time published on Europeana

  • 2019-07-25T07:45:38.603Z

Last time updated from providing institution

  • 2021-11-03T11:22:04.772Z