“Nobody had opinions,” she said, using her fingers to zip her mouth closed, “not even in joking.” Assabalani then about Damascus, besides the sweet smell of jasmine, was the silence. The year was 2010, the eve of the Arab uprisings. To keep busy, she enrolled in French classes. She had been working as a consultant with the World Bank, when she decided to join her family in Damascus where her father was - and still is - posted. In 2008, she spent a year in the United States on a Fulbright grant to the University of William and Mary, in Virginia. ![]() That meant she grew up in different countries, before going to college in Jordan. Her grandfather fled Iran after the Islamic Revolution and went to Yemen, where her father became a diplomat.
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