In Nayrab, a town near the Syrian city of Idlib, the family of Ahmed al-Ahmed have been overwhelmed by the global response to his act of bravery
It has been almost 20 years since Ahmed al-Ahmed left Nayrab in the countryside near the north-western Syrian city of Idlib. But on Sunday, he was the talk of the town.
Nayab’s residents awoke to a video of Ahmed wrestling a gun from a shooter halfway around the world in Sydney’s Bondi Beach, saving lives in what was the country’s deadliest shooting in nearly 30 years.
“Ahmed al-Ahmed represents the best of our country,” the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said of the father-of-two, newly a citizen of his adopted homeland.
“At a moment where we have seen evil perpetrated, he shines out as an example of the strength of humanity.”
