Syrian man stuck in Tom Hanks-like limbo at airport

A Syrian man has been stranded at Dubai airport for 16 days in a case with echoes of the Tom Hanks film The Terminal.

Syrian man stuck in Tom Hanks-like limbo at airport

Wasfi Tayseer Jarad has been stuck at the airport’s Terminal 2 since being freed from prison after serving time for a drugs conviction and issued with a deportation order, the English-language Gulf News reported.

With his native Syria in political turmoil, like Hanks’ homeland in the 2004 film, authorities in Dubai gave the 34-year-old the option to travel to anywhere that would take him.

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