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.
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.
