My name is Mahmoud Aghiorly

and I am a volunteer translator with TED.

I am from Syria,

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

This city is an ancient city

Actually, it's been there 3,000 years

but now within 4 years
everything's just finished.

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

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

These places are not there right now

We were just adopted so many stories

but actually, it's very difficult for us

that he can't leave them.

And it touched me in my heart.

Actually, as a woman and as a mother that

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

so yeah

Me and my brother were posted in engineers

and we were dreaming actually to have
an engineering consultant obviously

but the engineering office was
in the middle and heated area

so it was also mostly destroyed.

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

I spent around 5 years into it

then I emmigrate to Australia by 2015.

We came here on second day of November.

Last year, everthing was dark

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

Everything seems beautiful,

everything is green with so much flowers.