“It took us seven days to arrive here when on average, a trip from our village would only take half an hour.” Zuhur, a widow initially from Homs, told me.…

“HOW do they survive?” I asked our Syrian colleague. “They only wait for death,” he replied. I became numb for a while. This conversation occurred two years ago, yet it…

Making a journey while the Covid-19 outbreak is still a threat to the world is not easy. We had to take various preventive measures because this invisible enemy does not…

6 years as a full-time humanitarian worker, I have encountered many incidents that don’t fade from my mind. And I am more than willing to share with you readers some…

It has been slightly over a year since I left Malaysia for our 8th winter humanitarian mission to Syria on the 20th of November 2019. We had a two-day transit…

It was mid-November 2018. I was lying on the bed exhausted, still jet-lagged as it had only been two days since we got home from our seventeen-day humanitarian mission to…

I was clearing up my handphone Gallery last night and came across photos from a humanitarian mission that I lead inside Syria in the winter of 2018. I smiled as…

I tossed and turned on the bed that first night in Arsal, Lebanon during our emergency mission there. The extremely cold weather required me to sleep in my winter jacket…