This study investigated relationships among the severity of symptoms of PTSD, emotional intelligence, and gender differences in refugee children from the Middle East after their exposure to war in their native countries (Iraq, Lebanon, or Palestine). Participants were 17 male and 13 female children, aged 12-17. Fifty percent of the participants were recruited from the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services Community Mental Health Clinic (ACCESS) in Dearborn, Michigan. The remaining respondents volunteered to participate in this study after being contacted by leaders of their communities. Pearson product-moment correlation was used to determine relationships among variables. A t-test of independent means was used to analyze mean differences between groups. Findings suggested that as the severity of PTSD increased, emotional intelligence decreased. There were no significance differences between female and male children on the PTSD severity scale. Results also revealed that male children generally scored higher on the emotional intelligence test. A significant difference was found between male and female children in using emotion subscales. Correlation coefficients showed that the PTSD symptom severity score was negatively correlated with all Adolescents Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale (AMEIS) subscales. Two significant negative correlations were found. PTSD symptom severity scores were significantly correlated with using emotion and understanding emotional tasks. It was expected that the findings will be useful in identifying factors that may decrease or contribute to decreasing the severity of PTSD symptoms of these children. Implications of the findings were discussed, and recommendations for practice and future research were presented.