How Two Sisters Led a Decade-Long Effort To Reform Extremists

How Two Sisters Led a Decade-Long Effort To Reform Extremists

A 23-year-old woman walks through the doors of a white prison building atop a hill in Lebanon, 3 miles east of the capital, Beirut. She tells the guards that she wants to meet with the prisoners.  This is Roumieh Central Prison, notorious in the country for housing those accused of terrorism and of belonging to extremist groups including the Islamic State group and al Qaeda. The woman is Maya Yamout, one of two sisters who set out on a mission t…