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Imprisoned Syrian Wrote Poetry Imagining the Fall of the Regime. Now it's Come True

2024/12/19
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For 14 years, Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar was imprisoned and tortured in a series of prisons. He found refuge in writing poetry. Now, the poems he wrote imagining the fall of the regime are coming true. He tells host Nahlah Ayed how the freedom within is greater than any prison.