When you meet someone here at TED and this is the top networking place, of course, of the year you don't shake somebody's hand and then say, Can you hold on for a moment while I take out my phone and Google you?

Over dinner, perhaps just to get to know her better, I ask her in private How was your husband imprisoned? I was arrested at the army's Fourth Armored Division checkpoint on the way from Daarya to Damascus. When I told my husband, the crazy man drove his car to the checkpoint to ask about me, and was arrested as well, she tells me, choking with sadness.