Wafaa Al Safadi

This is a portrait of Wafaa Al Safadi, the mother and wife of a family of 6 Syrian refugees newly settled in rural Nova Scotia. Here, Wafaa reads the same passage from her Quran that she has read since her 18-year-old son Yasser Al Salayma was killed while fighting with the rebels in Syria. For the Canadian Press.

Wafaa Al Safadi

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