Jiyad Al-Taqi’s Story “No matter how much I say, I can never do him justice.”

Jiyad Al-Taqi’s Story “No matter how much I say, I can never do him justice.”

“I never imagined I would one day speak about Jiyad in his absence. He was not just a friend… he was my neighbor, closer to my soul than many others.” This is how Jiyad’s friend begins his account, adding with a heavy heart, “My testimony is biased by love, for no matter what I say, I could never truly describe what he meant to me.” Jiyad Naji al-Taqi was thirty years old. He was unable to continue his studies after high school because of severe…