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  "textContent": "Jay Abdo has a mission. “I want to show the world who Syrians really are; why they sometimes had to leave, and why they’re coming back,” says the Syrian American actor Jay Abdo in a Zoom call from Damascus in late March. Fifteen minutes in, the screen freezes. Abdo comes back on five minutes later […]",
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