How did the Syrian Revolution lead to the Syrian Civil War? Why didn't the regime make any real concessions? How quickly did the regime resort to massacring protestors? (Answer: very quickly).

 

This episode looks at what happened in Syria between March 15 to March 25, 2011.

 

Sources cited:

The Impossible Revolution by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

My Country by Kassem Eid

The Syrian Revolution by Yasser Munif

We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman

Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher

Brothers of the Gun by Marwan Hisham

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-12827542

 

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