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‘Crying Shame’: A Rapper’s Lament for Syria

While a student at the University of Virginia, Syrian American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum realised that his music could be a tool. Now the focus of his lyrics is to remind people that beneath all the ‘political posturing and proxy wars’, there’s still real human suffering that has to be addressed.

Image: Syrian American rapper Omar Offendum. Credit: PRI’s The World

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