"We want them, we want everyone." With this phrase, the Syrian artist Yara Sabri means a special page on the social networking site "Facebook", which she devoted to following the news of the Syrian detainees in the prisons of the Syrian regime, and publishing any information related to the forcibly disappeared in the detention centers and detention centers in Syria.

Sabri, who lives in Canada, is active through the page, by publishing photos of detainees and personal information about the detainee, such as his city, place and date of arrest, and appeals to followers to send information about the whereabouts of the detainee and his fate through comments on the post.

Through some publications, information about one of the detainees arrives and his fate, and a follower and a former detainee speaks through the comments that he met the owner of the photo, and confirms that he is in the so-and-so branch and the so-and-so Syrian city.

In some publications, sadness dominates some stories, as one commented that this detainee in the photo had died as a result of torture or disease and the lack of health care, which most of the detainees in the prisons of the Syrian regime lack.

Yara the artist

The artist Sabri was born in the Syrian capital (Damascus) in 1967, and she is the daughter of an artistic family with distinction. Her father is the artist, Selim Sabry, her mother is the artist Thana Dabsi and her husband is the artist Maher Salibi.

Yara began her artistic career in 1989 through the series "Tree of Naranj", and then participated in many works until she reached the roles of the absolute championship, after which she joined the Syndicate of Syrian Artists in 1998.

Among the most important works that Sabry participated in in the Syrian drama, according to its chronology: The Roots Do Not Die, Khan Al-Harir, Bab Al-Hadid, Al-Thuraya, Al-Fawares, the Four Seasons, Houses Asrar, Palestinian Al-Gharib, People of Love, Takht Al Sharqi, Faces and Places, and Orchidia.

Sabri said in statements on social media that the closest works to her heart are the Four Seasons, and the most influenced person is Umm Saleh in Palestinian alienation, and the two works are directed by the late Syrian director Hatem Ali.

In Canada, where Sabri lives, she participated in the movie "Peace through Chocolate" in the role of mother Shahnaz, while the late Hatem Ali played the role of father Issam Hodhod, as the film relates the success story of a Syrian family who fled the ravages of war in Damascus to Lebanon, before deporting to Canada as part of a program. Immigration.

Sabry won the "Adonia" prize for Syrian drama in 2004 as the best actress for her role in the popular series "The Palestinian Westernization", as well as the "Adonia Award" in 2010 for her role in "Takht Sharqi".

On her distance from the art scene and the fear of her name disappearing in the art world, Sabry said in an open dialogue on her Instagram page that she did not leave art.

But she hopes that there is work that deserves her return to the drama, stressing that the issue of disappearance does not constitute a fear of her at all.

(From the left) the late director Hatem Ali and the artist Yara Sabri with the heroes of the movie "Peace through Chocolate" (communication sites)

Yara and revolution

With the start of the popular movement in Daraa (southern Syria) in the spring of 2011, the Syrian regime pushed the army forces into a clash with the rebellious cities and towns, and imposed a siege on them, which prompted the artist Yara Sabri and a number of artists to condemn this siege and sign a statement to disband and introduce food, medicine and infant formula To those cities.

Later, the regime loyalists called "Bayan al-Milk" as a kind of mockery of the artists' statement. The most prominent signatories at the time were Yara Sabry, Mona Wassef and Rima Fuleihan.

Later, the Syrian regime authorities summoned the artist, Sabri, to the building of the official radio and television, to photograph an interview in which she disavowed the statement and spoke as dictated by the security services.

But she violated expectations and spoke courageously the opposite of what the director and the Syrian regime wished, as she was threatened and the interview ended.

The Freedom Bus, which has become a symbol and a picture through Yara Sabri's publications, about the absentees in the regime's prisons (communication sites)

After the threats, Sabri chose exile and departed from Syria to Dubai, then Canada, where she resides with her family, and continues to follow up the affairs of the detainees who are pleading to go out and ride the Freedom Bus, which has become a symbol and image through its publications about the absentees in the regime's prisons.