‘We mourn alongside her family and friends’
Published in The Australian Jewish News
January 24, 2019
Aiia Maasarwe came to Melbourne to study as an exchange student at La Trobe University. But on Monday evening, her father Saeed helped to carry her coffin at the Albanian Islamic centre and mosque in Dandenong.
Just hours after Aiia’s body was washed and enshrouded in cotton in accordance with Islamic ritual, she made her final journey home for burial in her hometown Baqa al-Gharbiyye, near Haifa in Israel.