After I left the hospital, I was taken to the Idlib countryside where I received medical treatment at the home of a doctor, before the editorial department insisted I be transported to Turkey for further examination. It was later established that just one piece of shrapnel was embedded in my foot. Al Jazeera management insisted I should return home to Jordan to recover. But after a heated exchange, they agreed I could remain for a short while.
In Idlib, as the opposition fighters managed to force the regime’s troops out, I ventured through green farms, mostly scorched, with a local guide for more than 9km. The scenes I witnessed were heart- breaking. My goal was an exclusive interview with one of the figures of the Syrian revolution, the man who made the famous outcry “I am not an animal, I am a human being; so are all those (Syrian) people” on Al Jazeera. His name was Abu Ahmed.
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