Story highlights AMAR Foundation has been helping the Middle East for 24 yearsThe foundation has been working across Iraq to aid people displaced by the ISIS invasionDr. Ali Nasser Muthanna is the regional manager for AMAR Foundation and a medical doctor in Iraqi refugee camps on the Iran-Iraq border. Sitting close together on the sofa in my office in Basra, Iraq, Marwa cannot stop talking about how happy she is; Sajjad just gazes adoringly into his new wife's eyes. Like millions of other couples around the world, they are both enjoying those first few precious months of married life. In this part of the world, this was a relationship that would normally have been doomed to failure. There has been much bad blood between the different Muslim sects over the years, especially since the fall of Saddam Hussein unleashed a wave of violence that tore our country apart.

Source: CNN December 01, 2016 17:48 UTC