Imprisoned Syrian Wrote Poetry Imagining the Fall of the Regime. Now it's Come True

Ideas - A podcast by CBC

For 14 years, Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar was imprisoned and tortured in a series of prisons. He found refuge in writing poetry. Now, the poems he wrote imagining the fall of the regime are a reality. He tells host Nahlah Ayed how the freedom within is greater than any prison.