When a missile struck the oil refinery near her home in Syria, setting ablaze a raging fire only steps from her children’s bedrooms, Rana Mustafa left with her family and never looked back.
The only possession she brought with her was her laptop. Six months later, air attacks destroyed the house and snatched away any hope of recovering her family’s remaining belongings.
“Everything was left inside—books, clothes, my kids’ paintings, everything you can imagine,” said Mustafa, a visiting professor in food science at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Agriculture and Bioresources.
“How do you leave your home every day? I left my home exactly like that. I moved, but I thought I could come back later when the fire was gone. I have never been there since.”
Until recently, Mustafa was an associate professor and leading researcher at Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria.
Read more at the source about Dr. Rana Mustafa who is an Ismaili from Syria: By Henrytye Glazebrook, Jan 13, 2017 – From Syria to Saskatoon | University of Saskatchewan
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