STELLARTON – Tareq Hadhad still remembers the smell of jasmine after the rain as he walked after dark through the ancient city of Damascus.
It’s a smell that brings back memories of happier times of life in Syria.
So much of his early life was filled with joy, as 27-year-old Hadhad described in detail for students at the Nova Scotia Community College in Stellarton, where he was a guest speaker on Thursday.
In Syria his father was a chocolate maker who started a business from his kitchen to become the second largest in the Middle East.
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