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Daughters Nadeem: Years and Juliette Barbar

daughters nadeem: The Barbar family's plane landed an hour ago, according to CBC. Eagerness and excitement are building. clauderivest The plane landed early, but it was another three hours before the Barbars walked through the plate glass doors in the international arrivals area and into the arms of relatives who hadn't seen them in two years. Raed and Juliette Barbar and their daughters Nadeem and Nardeen landed at Montreal's Trudeau airport Monday, nearly three years after fleeing their home in Qaraqosh, Iraq at gunpoint and almost two years after the Hope Community Church in Lennoxville applied to bring them to Canada from their precarious existence in Amman, Jordan. Open Arms How Canadians are welcoming Syrian refugees Juliette's parents, her brother and his family, who have been resettled in Ottawa, waved Canadian flags and held up signs that said Welcome to Canada. Juliette Barbar is reunited with her sister-in-law after being separated for two years. When mother and daughter were reunited, neither was able to hold back their tears. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.