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On July 13 she and her daughter -- whose name Yazbek does not want made public -- made their way to Damascus Airport and boarded an Air France flight to Paris, landing just as the city was beginning its exuberant Bastille Day celebrations.
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On July 13 she and her daughter - whose name Yazbek does not want made public - made their way to Damascus Airport and boarded an Air France flight to Paris, landing just as the city was beginning its exuberant Bastille Day celebrations.
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I think Yazbek is a talent who should have won a Tony for his Full Monty score.
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Signatories included Alawite figures such as former political prisoner Loay Hussein; female writers Samar Yazbek and Hala Mohammad; Souad Jarrous, correspondent for al-Sharq al-Awsat pan-Arab daily; writer and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh and filmmaker Mohammad Ali al-Attassi.
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Well into the second hour of Assad's speech, Yazbek sank into a chair in the Left Bank cafe and let out a sign of despair, having not bothered to listen to it.
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Having written several screenplays and four novels, Yazbek's writing was becoming increasingly anti-regime, and with it, she says, the threat of arrest seemed ever-more likely.
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For months this year, Yazbek joined the demonstrations in Damascus, where she says she watched people "carrying flowers and olive branches, and then getting killed."
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As it was, Yazbek made it out of Syria -- she hints that she received help from the French government -- and requested political asylum on arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport, joining a growing number of Syrians who have fled to France in recent months.
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Yazbek says she told just a few close friends that she was fleeing, fearing that if word spread, the police would grab her and daughter as they tried to leave the country; she says she had to tell some people, since she also feared that the two might disappear into custody, with no one knowing where they were.
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The Smell of Cinnamon, a novel published four years before the revolution erupted, Yazbek already wrote that killers "walk the streets in cold blood," referring to government agents.
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