Human Body Oddities
Mohammed and Ahmed Ibrahim with mother Sabah Abu el-Wafa and sister Asma. The brothers were born in Qus, Egypt June 2001, and are shown awaiting medical care in Dallas, Texas.
After more than a year of planning and a complex surgery that took more than 26 hours to complete, two-year-old twins from Egypt became separate individuals for the first time in their lives on October 13, 2003.
This photo from the Children's Medical Center of Dallas shows Egyptian formerly conjoined twins Mohamed Ibrahim (L) and Ahmed Ibrahim (R) viewing each other for the first time since their separation, with their father Mohamed Ibrahim and mother Sabah Abou Al Wafa(AFP/HO-CMC) [Mon Oct 27, 2003]
Formerly conjoined Egyptian twins Ahmed, left, and Mohamed Ibrahim pose with their 5-year-old brother, Mahmoud, at Children's Medical Center Dallas, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Children's Medical Center Dallas, Skeeter Hagler)
