lots of jamming happens here, it's like more of a family hanging out. >> anthony: this café is a typical beirut establishment with a clientele from lebanon, from syria, and any number of other countries. the owners are both lebanese and syrian and acutely aware of the tricky political realities with which they must live. they were concerned about us filming here and wanted us to understand clearly that the café has no political affiliation and that the opinions of this young lady rawan are not that of the café or necessarily even the clientele. >> anthony: you were born and bred in syria. >> rawan: i was, yes. i was born and bred up in syria in damascus. >> rawan: one night, three a.m., the army entered our house, and i found them in my bedroom looking for the free syrian army. my dad knew he couldn't protect us because he was old. three hours later, we decided to leave. so we came to beirut. ♪ >> anthony: oh, thank you.