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Zeina Daccache, playwright, and Joseph Jules, ex-convict, outside the walls

The actress and drama therapist, whose plays have the power to change laws, leaves the prison and her patients at the same time as Youssef, the longest-serving life prisoner, now must face the real world.

Zeina Daccache, playwright, and Joseph Jules, ex-convict, outside the walls

The actress and drama therapist Zeina Daccache in "Ly chabakna ykhallessna" (May the one who bound us deliver us). (Credit: Ghassan Aflak)

For 13 years, she spent her days in the Lebanese prison system, a voluntary prisoner, creating plays with inmates, attempting to repair within them whatever drives them to crime through drama therapy. For 13 years, every play written and directed by...
For 13 years, she spent her days in the Lebanese prison system, a voluntary prisoner, creating plays with inmates, attempting to repair within them whatever drives them to crime through drama therapy. For 13 years, every play written and directed by...