Suliman pauses, takes a deep sigh and adds: “You would never ever be alone among the people of Deir-ez-Zor. Items, aged over a century, that I inherited from my father and was going to pass to my children.” “In my house, I kept my grandfather’s legacy. Some of the best memories were the nights we spent out by the river, chatting, having fun and competing with the children in literature and poetry.” “I worked all day, but nights were all for my family.
“I built it brick by brick and it witnessed all my successes and failures.” Suliman’s family also grew, with four children two girls and two boys. By 2012, the clinic had become a medical centre. After graduation, he got married and started his own dentistry clinic in the same year, 1992. Prior to 2011, Suliman says his life was a paradise. Today, six years after his last goodbye to home, Suliman is still dealing with the great loss.
Suliman, who is known among his colleagues for his shiny smile and sweet spirit, was one of hundreds of thousands of ‘Deiri’ people who had to flee the hell of violence and siege that their city had become. A place of ancient history and the richest of lands.Īt his desk in UNICEF’s field office in Damascus, sits health and nutrition officer Dr. Damascus, Syria, 18 August 2021- When Deir-ez-Zor is mentioned nowadays, people think of an utterly destroyed place, but in the memory of its people, it is still that glorious city that once stood tall on the western shore of the great Euphrates.
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