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Jaber Baker
- Location:
- France
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, French
- Issues:
- Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Human Rights
- Cultural/racial identity:
- Syrian, Arabian,
- Self identification:
- Male
Bio
Jaber Baker is a novelist, researcher, former political prisoner, human rights activist, and filmmaker. Author of Syrian Gulag: Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020, the first-ever comprehensive study of Syrian political prisons. Has produced several political novels in Arabic, including 601 Divine Trials (2017) and Bab Alfradis – Missing for Guilan Damascene (2020). He has written and prepared a number of documentaries and audio series and has founded the ‘Search for Meaning’, ‘THE CLERK’, and ‘THE IMPOSSIBLE STAGE’ podcasts.
