Culture
Let there be light
10 years agoOmran, a four-year-old Syrian boy covered in dust and blood, sits in an ambulance after being rescued from the rubble of a building hit by an air strike in the rebel-held Qaterji neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo late on August 17, 2016. PHOTO: AFP / MAHMOUD RSLAN
A few weeks ago, the image of a stunned and bloodied Syrian boy, Omran Daqneesh shocked the world. Sitting in the back of an ambulance, five-year old Omran, was hauntingly silent, he didn’t cry, he didn’t scream.