"
I haven't really recognized myself by my Syrian first name for years
."
Raised in a Francophile family in Aleppo, Fadi, 27, took refuge in France when the Syrian crisis broke out in 2012. The student began studying biology in Reims, and quickly became attached to the country he find out.
Thin mustache, white shirt enhanced with a waistcoat, Fadi, who has a perfect command of the French language, easily passes for a native.
He is rather proud of it.
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Until the moment when he is asked for his first name.
The attitude of his interlocutors changes.
"
How do you say?
Farid ?
Fati?
Where do you come from ?
".
Fadi tires of being constantly brought back to his origins ... when it is not snobbery that he detects in the voice of his interlocutor.
“
My first name sounded exotic, while my heart had already become French
”.
By submitting his application for naturalization, Fadi requested the modification of this forename, which has lapsed.
He chose Felix, the bearer of joy and luck.
"
And
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