Ferzat says the uprising has unleashed a new creativity among ordinary Syrians Ali Ferzat's hands sweep and glide and conjure shapes as he sits in a small art gallery behind Sloane Square in London where his sly deconstructions of authoritarianism are on show. These are the hands that pricked and provoked the mukhabarat - the security police - in Syria into trying to smash them into silence. It wa
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