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Julian Doubax
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Dec 17 2024 at 6:32 p.m.
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“It’s a big relief “assures Ramman Ismail when he talks about the fall of the Bashar Al-Assad regime which occurred on Sunday December 8, 2024.
This Syrian refugee joined the France in 2014, at the age of 20, for flee the war underway in his native country.
He is now studying architecture at Bordeaux while continuing to discuss the situation in Syria on a daily basis.
A departure alone towards France
Ramman Ismail was born and raised in Aleppoin northwest Syria. The student lived half his life under repression of the authoritarian regime of Bashar Al-Assad.
“My house was bombed. I saw missiles pass near me, bodies, wounded, all this pushed me to leave Aleppo,” says the thirty-year-old.
He then joined the city of Kobanelocated on the border with Turkey. “It was a hard time because as a boy, all the regimes wanted us to take the armes and defend their ideologies. »
Feeling threatened, he decided to leave Syria in July 2023 for the first time. He then joins the Türkiyeneighboring country.
He worked for a few months at Istanbul before receiving his visa to join the France in 2024.
The defense of its people in France
After a few months spent in Paris then Lyon, Ramman Ismail settled in Bordeaux in 2017 to study architecture.
As soon as he arrived in France, he took French courses and invested in to raise awareness people about the situation in his country of origin.
“I organized several demonstrations in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux. During rallies, I mentioned the context in Syria but also the acts of Daesh and Islamist movements. »
He also made conferences in schools to raise awareness about the situation in the Middle East.
A study project on the city of Palmyra
Currently in his final year of architecture school, Ramman Ismail looked into a project Who ” [l’]’anime’ for three years.
He is working on the reconstruction of the city of Palmyra after the war and in particular on the prison of the commune, a sensitive site of Syrian repression.
“To succeed in this project, I based myself on testimonies from former prisonersDaesh propaganda videos and aerial views,” he summarizes.
To help him, he is supported by a survivor from prison aged 76. In particular, he will create plans and models which he will present at the end of his studies.
“It will never be worse”
On December 8, Ramman Ismail was able to express his relief after the announcement of the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. “We know that it will never get worse. It’s a great hope but there is also fear about future external interventions,” says the Syrian-Kurd.
Friends and cousins still present in Syria were able to confirm the jubilation in the streets. “It’s a release for those on site. We have never lived under a regime librewe have always been in a state of terror and fear,” confides the student.
A return to Syria envisaged?
From now on, this clear change in governance change plans of the life of Ramman Ismail and his relatives who have joined France for several years. “My family never thought they would be able to return to Syria. Now it’s a wish which can come true. »
He finishes his studies in June 2025 and is already thinking about what comes next. “I was hoping to return to Syria when I will be 60 years oldbut it’s possible to be there in a year,” he explains with a delighted air.
He then wishes to finish his architectural project and obtain the French nationality to be able to juggle between the two countries. “My status as a political asylum refugee will no longer be enough. I want to have the dual nationality because what I built in France, I can’t forget it. »
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