With the support of the “Homeland Wounded” project, Hussein Al-Abbar establishes a facility for the manufacture of thyme and soap

His small shop in the Naoura market in the old city of Homs smells of history mixed with the perfume of Aleppo thyme and laurel soap, thus, Hussein Al-Abbar, who has sustained wounds in the past period, adds a pearl of Aleppo that has been identified with the nobility of the old market and formed a literal diversity within the Syrian mosaic that he and his family transferred from Aleppo to Homs years ago.

The wounded Hussein Al-Abbar, born in Aleppo in 1990, did not allow despair to tarnish his will, and turned the pain of his wounds into hope and motivation to continue after he lost his right hand in 2013 in the Barzeh area of Damascus while he and his comrades-in-arms in the Popular Defense Groups and the Syrian Arab Army confronted the terrorist organizations which were trying to control the city.

Al-Abbar talks with fondness about the craft of soap making and thyme, and states that: “He loves this profession which is thousands of years old and is inherited from parents and grandparents.”

Al-Abbar overcame the conditions of disability by helping his brothers, as he works with them to prepare Aleppo’s green and red thyme and all its ingredients. The red is made from pomegranate molasses, fennel, sumac, salted chickpeas (qedama), anise and sesame, all of which are roasted on the fire, while the same ingredients are included in the green thyme without roasting and mixed raw and for every taste. to choose what he desires.

The wounded Al-Abbar addresses his fellow heroes, “If we want to continue life, we must work with more effort and giving in order to rise strongly and be productive and active in society, armed with determination, patience and hope.”

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