(AFP) Syrian mother Dahouk Idriss says she can’t wait for US President-elect Joe Biden to be inaugurated Wednesday, so she can finally visit her son for the first time in four years.
Biden has pledged that, on his first day in office, he would reverse a ban ordered by Donald Trump on travel to the United States for citizens of many mostly-Muslim countries.
“I’m counting the days until I get my next visa,” Idriss told AFP, sitting in her comfortable Damascus living room, surrounded by pictures of her far-flung children and late husband.
The retired chemistry teacher in her sixties said she visited her 36-year-old son twice after he started studying in Washington, DC, the year Syria’s war broke out in 2011, once in 2015 and the last time in late 2016.
