Jaber Baker
Jaber Baker is a novelist, researcher, former political prisoner and human rights activist, the senior researcher responsible for the Syrian file at the SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. He co-authored “Syrian Gulag: Assad’s Prisons, 1970-2020,” the first-ever comprehensive study of the regime’s political prisons, and has produced several political novels in Arabic, including “601: Divine Trials” (2017) and “Bab Alfradis – Missing Messages for Guilan Damascene” (2020). Baker has written and prepared a number of documentaries and audio series; he founded the podcasts “Search for Meaning,” “The Clerk” and “The Impossible Stage.”
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How I Survived a Syrian Gulag
I used Bashar al-Assad’s words about change and hope for Syrians. He ordered me to lift my blindfold and then slapped me with bitterness and cruelty, repeating a series of insults accompanied by the phrase, “An intellectual, you bastard? An intellectual?”