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Magda Sakaan and her father, Walid, shared memories at StoryCorps in 2019 of their time in Syria prior to the war there. Eleanor Vassili hide caption

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StoryCorps

'I Have These Dreams Where I Go Back.' Dad And Daughter Mourn A Syria They Once Knew

Before civil war devastated Syria, Walid Sakaan's home country, his daughter Magda moved there. At StoryCorps, Walid and Magda remember family they haven't visited in years.

Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain, by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler Norton hide caption

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'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways

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Magda Sakaan and her father, Walid, shared memories at StoryCorps in 2019 of their time in Syria prior to the war there. Eleanor Vassili hide caption

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Eleanor Vassili

'I Have These Dreams Where I Go Back.' Dad And Daughter Mourn A Syria They Once Knew

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