Bouchra Marbouhi says she last saw her daughter the morning of Friday, Sept. 26, when she got her ready for school. She told the girl that her father would be picking her up for a sleepover.

“My birthday was the 29th. So she said, ‘Mommy, I made you a card for your birthday,’” Marbouchi, 31, said in a recent interview.

“I kissed her and I said, ‘Thank you. Where is it?’ She said, ‘It's in my bag. When I come back tomorrow I will show it to you.’”

But Marbouhi never got the card.

Marbouhi said she has not seen her five-year-old daughter in more than a month, after the girl was taken from the country by her father, Ahmed ElGammal — despite a court order meant to stop him.

CBC News is withholding the name of the child to protect her privacy.

“I miss her smell. I miss her voice. I miss h

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