A post shared by Nayyef Hrebid (@nayyefhrebid) Meet Nayyef Hrebid, the former translator for the Marines during the Iraq war.
In a new interview with Vice, Hrebid and his husband Btoo Allami recall their time meeting and falling in love during the war, the struggle to keep their relationship secret amid “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and their eventual escape to marriage in the United States.“I was born in Kuwait, but grew up in Iraq, where I first realized I was different in school,” Hrebid explained.
I remember thinking about a guy at high school and feeling like I was doing something wrong and I had to be better. My family knew I was different too.”As the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Hrebid decided to enlist with the US Marines as a.