It was the darkest night of Mo Gawdat’s life. His son, Ali, 21, a student, had gone into hospital to have his appendix removed (‘The most straightforward of operations,’ Mo sighs) only to die a few hours later on the operating table after a series of surgical blunders. ‘The four hours between my wife Nibal, daughter Aya and I hearing something had gone wrong and the moment we lost Ali were the hardest I’ve ever known,’ says Mo, 54. ‘The anticipation — not knowing if he would live or die — was insanely difficult. We were so fragile, weeping. For hours I kept hoping, pleading, praying he would recover.’
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