Fleeing Syria: A Mother’s Wrenching Choice
“I kind of lost hope,” Abdulsalam Alaraj, on the tablet screen, tells his mother, Sawsan Ghazal. “After two years now, I don’t feel like I’m going anywhere. That’s killing me.” Sawsan is working to bring her family from Istanbul, Turkey, to join her in Sweden.
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Sawsan Ghazal was convinced that the only way to save her children was to leave them, crossing the continent with a man whose real name she didn’t know. She had an assumed identity and a fake passport.
