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  • It's been a hell of journey.

  • So it started at the end of 2012 when the Syrian regime committed one of the the largest massacre at the time.

  • But sadly, yeah, What happened in Syria have changed me forever.

  • You know, I don't want to also this happen to someone else.

  • So that's why we're doing this tour in Berlin.

  • My name is Mohammed Momani.

  • I come from Syria.

  • They can learn about Germany through Syrian eyes on have insight about both German history and Syrian history.

  • E Civil War Walk out in the year of 2000 11.

  • He was doing some citizen journalism.

  • My sibling, who was just a citizen, journalists as well on sadly, he was captured on He was tortured to death.

  • I had to flee and left everything behind.

  • Then I had to actually find a smuggler toe.

  • Help me get out of the country.

  • So you have to pay like, uh, 1500 American dollars to secure a place on a very packed thingy.

  • So I just decided to swim with another friend.

  • So we bought some life jackets, flippers on a lesser 10 on We started swimming by the sunset, a point called Sesame and dismal all the way toe CEOs Island and increase.

  • We're losing power and energy on.

  • I was, like, almost given up at some point.

  • After eight hours of swimming, I was rescued.

  • Almost.

  • Ida Creek was card eso I ended up in a refugee camp.

  • I learned some intermediate German on started to teach myself English in Germany.

  • This gives me hope.

  • Actually, I like to tell people visiting the tour is that you know, five years ago I was at that point and now I'm here giving workshops and finishing a degree in in politics.

  • I'm applying to a master degree.

  • Um international criminal law.

  • I'm trying to achieve something Eso, you know, like never give up.

It's been a hell of journey.

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