In the days after he applied for his fiancee Sahar’s visa, Mohamad checked his email continuously, hoping for good news.
For an agonising month after being separated by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East when Mohamad and his family fled Lebanon, the newly engaged couple wondered when they would see each other again.
A month ago, Mohamad and Sahar faced the possibility of never seeing each other again.Credit: Kate Geraghty
Then the good news came. “I opened it, and it was granted, and I was over the moon,” Mohamad tells the Herald from his temporary lodgings in the garage of a family friend’s home in south-western Sydney.
Two days after Mohamad, 22, and Sahar, 21, became engaged and celebrated with family in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, they had to flee north to Beirut as Israel’s ground …