Farris Hassan (born 1989) is an American who, while a junior at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took an unaccompanied trip Iraq. He said he was inspired by a personal attachment to the situation in Iraq and an English class having a project on "immersion journalism". It was reported that Hassan left home for Iraq without telling his parents. Hassan's parents, now divorced, are Iraqi-born but immigrated to the United States, where they have lived for 35 years. Wikipedia
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