The Beekeeper of Aleppo

by Christy Lefteri

But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.

Name – My beautiful boy. Cause of death – This broken world.

People are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater good – I’ve come to realise this now.

Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.