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Emotional Baggage: Maya Youssef

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Musician Maya Youssef talks about her painful decision not to return to her parents' house in Damascus when the civil war in Syria began.

Musician Maya Youssef talks about her painful decision not to return to her parents' house in Damascus when the civil war in Syria began. She reveals how playing music brings back such vivid memories of her homeland that she feels she has returned to her birthplace, even though she has not been there for over a decade.

(Photo: Maya Youssef and her qanun. Credit: Igor Studio)

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Tue 22 Mar 2022 00:32GMT
麻豆社 World Service

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