Mahmud, 11, Ayyub, 7, and their mother, Felicia Perkins-Ferreira, walk toward the boat that will take them out of Syria, across the river to Iraq, so they can start their journey home to Trinidad.
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After four years in Syria, two brothers returned home to Trinidad this week, following an extraordinary intervention by their mother, a renowned human rights lawyer, and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
A boy holds the burqa of his mother as they walk down a street in the old city of Kabul on November 1, 2009.
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Mahmud, 11, Ayyub, 7, and their mother, Felicia Perkins-Ferreira, walk toward the boat that will take them out of Syria, across the river to Iraq, so they can start their journey home to Trinidad.
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"When I fall in love with the song, I fall in love with the timbre and harmonies and melody. That's what kind of lifts me off," Zach Condon says.
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