A Viral Photo Helps Bring Syrian Refugee Family to Italy
A Syrian family portrayed in an award-winning photo has come to Italy for treatment and better lives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/europe/syrian-refugee-family-italy.html
SIENA, Italy The award-winning photograph of a man who had lost a leg in a bomb attack in Syria, hoisting into the air his son, born without limbs, another casualty of the countrys civil war went viral last year in Italy.
On Friday, Munzir El Nezzel, the man in the picture, and his son Mustafa arrived in Italy after a remarkable effort by the organizers of the
Siena International Photo Awards, to bring them and their family from Turkey, where they had fled after Syria.
We are coming, thank you, the 6-year-old Mustafa said, smiling broadly, in a video message recorded before he and his family father, mother and his two sisters ages 1 and 4 boarded a plane in Ankara on Thursday to fly to Italy. We love Italia, he added.
The picture of Mustafa and his father, both with loving smiles, which was taken in January 2021 by the Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan, and called Hardship of Life, was declared photo of the year at the Siena awards last year.
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