Qusay, pictured here with his father, was blinded in a bomb attack in Basra. The 23-year-old, who was an ambitious young business manager at the time, says the perpetrators "have taken away his future".
"All the patients have something in common," says orthopaedic surgeon, Dr Majd el-Rass, who is originally from Syria. "They have been terrorised - by explosions, by bullets, by catastrophe. I admire my patients, they are great. They are strong."
I feel pain of these people, who are just like me and you. We could have been in there place, and we could have lost our organs for someone else's "Jihad" driven by malicious personal gains.
Help me to escape from this existence
I yearn for an answer... can you help me?
I'm drowning in a sea of abused visions and shattered dreams
In somnolent illusion... I'm paralyzed
Re: Fixing bodies broken in years of Arab world violence
^it is so true. when i was in Syria, the electricity was cut off a lot during this past winter for many hours on end. But subhan-Allah, Allah would make the weather so nice. most of the time it wouldn't be cold at all, although syrian winters are usually very cold.
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