It has been 13 years since Hend Gamal stood beside her father’s deathbed, not knowing what to do, her teenage emotions overwhelmed by grief, shock and confusion. A mental image of the “hardest moment in her life” still runs through her head. “I had never thought I would lose him,” Gamal said. “Few people are prepared for such a moment.”
Gamal still recalls the bustle and blur as she tried to obtain a burial permit and organize her father's funeral. “I was a mere 18,” Gamal said. “My fear of being alone was coupled with the sheer horror of not knowing what to do now that he was dead, how to bury him.”
