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Ussam al-Sharraf

( Baltimore Sun photo by Matthew Hay Brown / December 4, 2008 )

Thirteen-year-old Ussam al-Sharraf is delighted to be spending his days helping his father at the al-Baracka restaurant in Saida Zainab, Syria, but Nabil Hassom worries that Ussam and his other children will be unable to succeed in life without schooling.

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