Barbara Marlowe, of Concord Township, quickly read the few paragraphs about Teeba in a newspaper July 15, 2006, but studied her photograph for a long while. Marlowe had always avoided volunteering ...

CONCORD,Ohio -- She stepped off the plane in Cleveland in July 2007. At five years old, Teeba Furat's face began to tell the story of the life she left behind in Iraq. She was scarred from a roadside ...

Teeba Furat Fadhil met Santa Claus last year at Panini’s. She and her American parents, Barbara and Tim Marlowe, were sitting with her when an instantly identifiable profile entered the Concord ...

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Barbara Marlowe and Teeba Furat Marlowe with Jennifer Keirn. Thomas Nelson, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7852-2136-4 This affecting memoir details the journey of an Iraqi girl coming to America after ...

Teeba is a busy teenager these days whose life is filled with school, friends and dance class. It’s been eight years since she came to the U.S. for medical treatment after surviving a roadside bombing ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh article in an ongoing series about Teeba Furat Fadhil Marlowe. Teeba came to the U.S. from Iraq in 2007 to receive treatment for burns to her face, neck and scalp.