{"id":11096,"date":"2026-08-12T20:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=11096"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:20:28","slug":"ibby-congress-listening-to-the-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/ibby-congress-listening-to-the-whispers\/","title":{"rendered":"IBBY Congress: Listening to the Whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was so meaningful to meet my fellow panelists for the War and Trauma panel. I was particularly struck by the work that Hooria Rezaei is doing with children in Tehran during this current war, using books as a refuge and a way of dealing with trauma in kids who are in the midst of the unimaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The three panelists: myself, Marwa and Hooria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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from left to right: audience member, Marwa, me, Hooria, and IBBY moderator Tobechukwo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It was so meaningful to meet my fellow panelists for the War and Trauma panel. I was particularly struck by the work that Hooria Rezaei is doing with children in Tehran during this current war, using books as a refuge and a way of dealing with trauma in kids who are in the midst of … Continue reading “IBBY Congress: Listening to the Whispers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[864,1105,353,7,863,1104],"class_list":["post-11096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraine","tag-listening-to-the-whispers","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-under-attack","tag-war-and-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11100,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11096\/revisions\/11100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}