Bahá’ís are not allowed to study in Iran, so when I was 19, my brother and I left to study in India. Soon afterwards, the revolution took place in Iran, which meant that it became hard for people to travel in and out of the country. My father was so worried about...
(3/10) Then, Daraa. It started when children in that town wrote on a wall, ‘It will be your turn soon, Doctor.’ Intelligence arrested those children and tortured them and took off their fingernails. They were around 10 – 14 years old. Then, the people in Daraa went to...
(2/9) In 2007, I moved to Damascus and I started working in the drama field. I wrote a second TV series and other films and a lot of things, and I always had serious problems but nothing like the first one. The regime had the power to imprison or to kill me but there...
(1/9) 15 years ago, I discovered a lot of corruption while I was working for the Syrian telephone services. The government wanted me to stay silent when I stood up against this corruption, but I wouldn’t. At that time, my children were still under 5, and there was a...
