Jay Abdo On Why He Returned To Syria

Jay Abdo On Why He Returned To Syria

Jay Abdo has a mission. “I want to show the world who Syrians really are; why they sometimes had to leave, and why they’re coming back,” says the Syrian American actor Jay Abdo in a Zoom call from Damascus in late March. Fifteen minutes in, the screen freezes. Abdo comes back on five minutes later explaining that the internet had gone down due to a power cut. The faltering connection is a daily reality for Abdo, who returned to Syria from LA i…