Rita Leistner: Strength Like a Drowning Person

Fifty-eight-year-old Mayada, a patient at the hospital, shows how she does her daily exercises to keep fit. “Don’t be afraid," she said. "I feel safer in here than out there. I don’t want contact with the conflict in the outside world. I hate war, these many wars. But I do like life. Sometimes one finds strength, like a drowning person.”