Jamal Stories

An elderly Iraqi woman, while harvesting oranges from her orchard, recalls the days when ISIS terrorists stormed her land and burned the crop, linking it to the liberation of the land by the Popular Mobilization Forces under the leadership of the martyred commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. She used to offer a portion of her orchard's fruit as a reward to his pure soul.

The story of a mother who, while preparing her daughter for school, listens on the radio to news of the anniversary of the martyrdom of Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. She recalls the day she was fleeing from ISIS while carrying her three-month-old daughter, and how she was rescued by the Popular Mobilization Forces. She listens to the voice of Commander Abu Mahdi as he advises the forces to protect the families.

A student, the son of a martyr, was asked by his Arabic language teacher to write an essay about his father. He wrote that he had two fathers, not one, because of a word the martyr leader addressed to him before his martyrdom, telling him that he was his father.

A story told by a soldier in the Popular Mobilization Forces to his son, on their way to Najaf to visit the shrine of the martyred commander, about his attempt to see the martyred commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in one of the battles, but he did not catch up with him.

The story of a Yazidi grandmother awaiting her newborn grandson in the hospital, recalling the moment her only daughter was taken captive until her liberation, so the mother decides to name her son (Jamal) in honor of her savior from the clutches of ISIS.