The relationship failed because of the opposition of the man's family[3] as interfaith marriage was forbidden by Syrian law.

In her book Le rapt she related to her experience of having been unable to see her son for 13 years, because he was taken to Syria by his father after she remarried.

[3] Al-Masri started writing poetry from a young age "to distinguish herself from the other girls and to attract attention",[3] publishing in literary magazines in Damascus.

[3] Her 2014 poetry collection Elle va nue la liberté [Freedom, she comes naked][5] is based on social media images of the civil war.

[6] Although she defines herself as an Atheist, she justified the use of religious slogans in the Syrian uprising as a "last opium" which cannot be taken away from people brutally oppressed by a dictatorship.