Henrietta Bowden-Jones talks to Maya Youssef talks about her painful decision not to return to her parents’ house in Damascus when the civil war in Syria began
BBC: “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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