 When did you get out of Syria? How long has it been? A month ago or three weeks. Were you in Aleppo the whole time or did you... Actually, before I left to Europe, I left to Lebanon. I left to Lebanon to get the visa. So I left Syria about one month. Two months ago I left to Lebanon and I applied for the visa. And last month I went there to Lebanon to get the visa and then I flew to Europe, to Spain currently. And so you're in Barcelona. What was it like? You were in Aleppo, obviously there was a lot of fighting going on. What was it like in recent weeks? Very big step. You can't imagine that I didn't have electricity, water, internet access and mobile phone networks. Now I have all these stuff available which is quite a turning point for me which is sometimes I didn't have electricity for more than five days. Now I have electricity all the time so I can't believe it. You can't feel that now there are many things you can get for granted. You didn't realize that before. Plus you can walk around safely with that. Still I fear to go at night. Two years ago I didn't go at night or after the sunset. I usually don't go from my apartment and still here after the sunset I usually don't go. Still I still fear the fear. Are you still feeling the fear? Are you seeking help at all? This is probably, I imagine this is common. You've just come out of a war. They talk about post-traumatic stress disorder. You just said it, still feeling the fear. You're out of Syria, out of Aleppo, you're in Spain. Have you thought about seeking help at all or treatment? No, indeed not. Actually it's just because I spent two years without going out at night. When I came here it's unusual for me to go out at night. Sometimes I feel it's night but I can go out. Why wouldn't I? I feel it's better now because I registered at the university here. I have to follow up my studies. I went once with my friends at night. Before midnight of course. How is your family? Are they still in Aleppo? My mother and my sister are still in Aleppo. My father went to Turkey and my brother is in Jordan. What about your mother and sister still being in Aleppo? Are you in contact with them? How are they doing? Well, it's quite difficult actually to get in touch with them since the connections there are not always available and they didn't have internet for more than a month but recently three or four days ago they got the internet available so I was able to communicate with them but that doesn't mean that the internet is available for 24 hours it's just available for maybe two or three hours per day and sometimes it's not available so I was able to get in touch with them and hear the latest news about in Aleppo. Actually it's still unsafe there. People are still afraid from going at night or at least during the day because you don't expect when a bullet comes to you, when a shell, when a bombs any kind of explosions that might happen during your way so still people don't feel and especially those areas which are the borders between the government and the opposition groups so those borders are like nobody moves or nobody walks there or nobody even tries to go there it's very dangerous so it's like just a border just there are snipers and there are like armed people waiting for each other to kill each other sometimes so if a person walks there he will be killed without any doubt What do you think? I mean how can anyone know what will happen in a few weeks, a few months from now but do you have any thoughts of where things are headed or how they sit in? I always read the news this situation is further complicated especially in the north of Aleppo because it's now under the control of both opposition groups one of which is Al Qaeda and the other is the Free Syrian Army and it seems to me that those two groups which are against the government and still they are fighting each other Al Qaeda is now fighting the government and is fighting the Free Syrian Army which makes the situation further complicated in the countryside of Aleppo and even in Aleppo it happened last week that I heard in the news that there were like fights fighting between Al Qaeda which is if you heard about it Islamic State of Iraq and Syria I think you heard about this group this group was trying to gain Aleppo so there were like fighting between the Free Syrian Army and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria but fortunately the Islamic State left because actually when I tried to leave Aleppo I left to the countryside and I spent there two days and I lived with the town related to which was under the control and still under the control of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and even though it's under the control of them but people there don't really like them because you are forced to pray you are not allowed to listen to music but you are a free person you can do whatever you want in the afterlife God will punish you not them you are not allowed to listen to music or you are not allowed to do whatever for example you are a free person you can do whatever you want so people there actually in the town where I lived for two days or stayed for two days didn't like don't like those people who are controlling them well thank you so much for calling in giving us an update we've been talking now for I'm trying to remember how it goes back to the early days when I remember the first call the day there was two bombs went off at the security buildings in Aleppo I think that was your first call when was that? Do you recall? maybe February 2012 February of 2012 yeah February of 2012 and we've talked to you a few times since then and I'm glad to hear you're safe and I hope your family is able to stay safe and good luck to you and keep giving us updates of course we will stay untouched