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This comment is an apparent reference to Manaf Tlas' brother Firas, a businessman.
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Firas is an unarmed film director. he is not dangerous to the state.
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No one knew a Firas, and they couldn't find the man for weeks.
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Recent evidence of this potential can be seen in the unlikely breakthrough for Firas Khatib, from the University of Washington.
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"Every day, the lawyer would go to the courts, and we'd ask detainees that got out if they knew a Firas, " she said.
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Firas Tlas has been in favor of reform in Syria.
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"Our daily lives were the major inspiration, being young people and part of a changing country trying to form its future in a very sensitive period, " said guitarist Firas Abu-Fakhr.
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Afterward, I felt like he's the same Firas.
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Meanwhile Firas Ahmad, a columnist who co-edits a glossy Muslim monthly from his home in Boston, maintains that a lot of Islamic history as well as the dilemmas of modern times should be reconsidered in the light of the robust separation between religion and state which (on his reading, at least), Muslims have quite frequently, and cheerfully, maintained.
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