A World Within Reach, Out of Touch

HOF — When I was sixteen, I connected to the internet for the first time.

The sound of the modem—its screeching, mechanical handshake—felt like falling through a wormhole. With a single click, I was no longer confined to the orthodoxies of my Shiite Islamic school or the rigid lines of Syria’s Arab Nationalist curriculum. I was somewhere else entirely.

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