From Toronto to Damascus: Syrians return home aiming to rebuild country
- Damascus, Syria – When the al-Assad regime fell in December 2024, Yasseen Tasabehji and his family did not originally plan on returning to Syria.
- Tasabehji, now 33, his four siblings and his parents had moved to Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto in Canada, in 2010, a year before the start of the Syrian uprising and subsequent war.
- They’d built what Tasabehji describes as a “quite good” life and didn’t plan on ever returning.
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- Damascus, Syria – When the al-Assad regime fell in December 2024, Yasseen Tasabehji and his family did not originally plan on returning to Syria.
- Tasabehji, now 33, his four siblings and his parents had moved to Mississauga, a suburb of Toronto in Canada, in 2010, a year before the start of the Syrian uprising and subsequent war.
- They’d built what Tasabehji describes as a “quite good” life and didn’t plan on ever returning.
Sources: Al Jazeera