This Syrian dad invented a game to keep his daughter from being scared during the bombing of the civil war in Syria
Don't store avocado like this: it's dangerousWhenever a bomb falls, they laugh. She is Selva and she is only 4 years old, he is her father Abdullah Al-Mohammad, outside the four walls there is the Syrian civil war, between bombs and bullets. So this dad invents a game to exorcise fear and avoid trauma to his little girl.
A video that is very reminiscent of Benigni's Life is Beautiful, but here we are not in a Nazi concentration camp, we are in Idlib, in the north-west of Syria, where Turkey also has strategic projects and political consensus and where bombs continue to fall. Abdullah Al-Mohammad's family was forced to flee their home in Saraqib and are now living with a friend.
Abdullah and his beautiful daughter Selva. Father and daughter, whose situation I shared above. And it's that devastating game over and over again. You don't need to know Arabic to understand. pic.twitter.com/wUwKAcLzWE
— Mehmet Algan (@alganmehmett) February 16, 2020
The video was posted on Twitter by Mehmet Algan, a former MP from the Turkish Justice and Development Party of the Hatay region who writes: "You don't need to know Arabic to understand." They are in the foreground. Whenever a bomb falls, Abdullah asks: "Is it a plane or is it a bullet?" “A bullet,” replies the daughter in the video. "Yes, and when it arrives, we will laugh", says Muhammed. So he makes the little girl believe that everything is good and that those are fireworks or bursts of a toy gun.
Font: Mehmet Algan/Twitter
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