Acclaimed Syrian poet and author Khaled Khalifa was determined to remain in Damascus long after most of the city’s literary luminaries fled its brutal civil war. Khalifa died of a cardiac arrest in the Syrian capital last week. His close friend, BBC journalist Lina Sinjab, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about the themes of loyalty and loneliness woven through Khalifa’s novels, television scripts and his everyday life.
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