and can barely walk. for her, it won't be an easy move. but in the final hours before their departure when the children are too excited to get to sleep, there is a last—minute hitch. so they should actually be in the air right now but when you are a refugee you don't have much control over events and there has been some kind of delay. the bureaucratic bungle means it will be weeks at least before he can fly. rahaf and mustapha don't know each other but they would recognise each other�*s pain. when she was three, her home in syria was hit by government shelling, setting her bedclothes on fire. her sister amma's burns were more severe.