This picture has very touching history

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 Star<x1 Film Award for the photo of a covered woman carrying her son in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

The Arad photo taken for the New York Times almost featured all aspects of uprisings throughout the Middle East known as the Arab Spring, one of the main events of 2011. The picture said that the image has religious sounds “almost Biblical” and pointed to Michelangelo's similarity to the sculpture “Pieta”.

Thousands of young people took to the streets of the capital on October 15, 2011, to protest President Ali Abdullah Saleh but were attacked by government forces. Between them and 18-year-old Zaid. Zaid's mother was alarmed because she knew that among the demonstrators was her son, and she was trying to find him.

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Zaid's mother fatma recalls: «I looked between the dead and the wounded. I looked for my son in all places and finally saw him in a small room not far from the mosque. He was trying to breathe, and I realized that he was drowning in the proverbs they had thrown before. That's why I have it in my arms and I've kept it very close to me. I didn't know what state he was in. Fatima then did not realize that someone was photographing him.

People asked me later if I was crying under my stock bag. Of course I was crying, but not out of sadness, but because I found it and I could save”. The photographer went back to Yemen in February 2012, to cover the presidential election and visited the family. Waiting for the family was very warm. Arand, Fatima and Zaid returned to the scene where they had experienced everything and repeated the scene, but this time the boy stood in front of the mother!