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My name is Mahmoud Aghiorly

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and I am a volunteer translator with TED.

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I am from Syria,


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and I am from the city called Aleppo,
located on the North.

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This city is an ancient city

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Actually, it's been there 3,000 years

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but now within 4 years
everything's just finished.

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Most of my places in memories and
buildings that I loved, are destroyed.

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And they're just bent down,
or bombed, or just throwing.

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These places are not there right now

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We were just adopted so many stories

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but actually, it's very difficult for us

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that he can't leave them.

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And it touched me in my heart.

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Actually, as a woman and as a mother that

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my baby wouldn't have the ability to visit
his father's places or mother's places.

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so yeah

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Me and my brother were posted in engineers

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and we were dreaming actually to have
an engineering consultant obviously

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but the engineering office was
in the middle and heated area

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so it was also mostly destroyed.

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So I think even you imagine
future is destroyed or bent down

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I spent around 5 years into it

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then I emmigrate to Australia by 2015.

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We came here on second day of November.

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Last year, everthing was dark

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and when the sun rises,
it is a new life.

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Everything seems beautiful,

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everything is green with so much flowers.