At the age of six, Joud has had a tough start to life. Small and delicate, he underwent treatment for leukaemia in Erbil, in Iraq’s northwest, before…
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At the age of six, Joud has had a tough start to life. Small and delicate, he underwent treatment for leukaemia in Erbil, in Iraq’s northwest, before…