Lina Wail Mwafaq Mosa Tabra

Remembered

She was uncomplicated. One of the stories I remember about her is from when she was in secondary school. One day the headmaster was hitting the students in punishment. She ran to the headmaster and told her, ‘Don’t hit them, they are still little, you can hit me instead’. She was a quiet girl, with a smile always on her face. As a teenager she didn’t share her interests with us, but after her death, her teenage cousins told us that she liked to keep a diary and write poems. She wanted to grow up to be a doctor.

As told by her father Wail Mwafaq Mosa Tabra to IBC, 4th July 2021.