The two-year-old Hiba has seen a lot for her age: she knows how an operation theater looks like; the frightening clattering of surgical instruments; the piercing pain of a syringe; the sharpness of a surgeon’s knife sliding into her eyeball. The second word she learnt after mother was eye and probably the next one will be pain. The two-year-old Hiba has seen a lot for her age: she knows how an operation theater looks like; the frightening clattering of surgical instruments; the piercing pain of a syringe; the sharpness of a surgeon’s knife sliding into her eyeball. She can’t express the unexplainable pain she is going through; she doesn’t have the words for it, and so she cries. Sometimes she points her tiny fingers towards her operated eye and sometimes, when the bandage on eye suffocates or irritates her, she tries to get rid of it. On the morning of…

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