What Happened to Syria?

What Happened to Syria?

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What Happened to Syria? episodes

  • 2021 Christmas Special - The First Refugees

    We're starting a new holiday tradition, an episode focused on refugees and other humanitarian issues in Syria.

     

    As early as 2011, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee the country. Today, more than six million displaced Syrians are demonized by hateful individuals and political movements all over the world.

     

    Mesud (@MaybeMesud on Twitter) describes how he and his family were forced to leave Aleppo and the challenges they faced not only during the journey but also while establishing a new life in Turkey.

     

    Sources
    “Nearly 10,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey,” Yahoo! News
    https://web.archive.org/web/20110623163253/https://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110617/wl_mideast_afp/syriaviolenceturkeyrefugees_20110617130011
     
    Music licensing
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
     
    Ultimate Metal by Loyalty Freak
    Creative Commons - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/HYPER_METAL_/Loyalty_Freak_Music_-_HYPER_METAL__-_08_ULTIMATE_METAL
    44 min
  • Episode 14 - Community Revolution
    How do you organize a leaderless movement?
     
    The Syrian Revolution was a decentralized movement of localized cells, but enterprising activists still managed to coordinate with each other and reach out to the outside world.
     
    We examine how the Local Coordination Committees attempted to create a post-Assad government before speaking to a civil society activist who still resides in Syria. We also speak with Ahmad, an engineer and civil society activist who has spent the last ten years enduring horror after horror and tragedy after tragedy in order to establish a Free Syria.
     
    Ahmad is the first guest to call us directly from Syria, where he is currently hiding from both the regime and jihadists. He doesn't have anything good to say about either one, for what it's worth. 
     
    Sources
    “How the Syrian Revolution was Organized - And How it Unraveled,” by Zaina Erhaim, New Lines Magazine
    Syria by Samer N. Abboud
    "U.S. Secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show," by Craig Whitlock, The Washington Post
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html
     
    Music Licensing
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
     
    "Emotional Sad Piano Music" by Mattia Cupelli
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44
     
    "Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar" by Ibrahim Qashoush
     
    "Jannah, Jannah, Jannah," sung by Abdul-Baset al-Sarout
    1 hr 8 min
  • Episode 13 - Alienation (June 13 to June 24, 2011)

    Supporters and opponents of the Assad regime are becoming irrevocably alienated from one another, sowing the seeds for a future war between Assad's Syria versus Free Syria.

     

    Sources

    A Woman in the Crossfire by Samar Yazbek

    Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher

    The Impossible Revolution by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

    The Syrian Revolution by Dr. Yasser Munif

    Civil War in Syria by Bakzo, et. al

    The Home That Was Our Country by Alia Malek

    Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad by Dr. David Lesch

    We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Dr. Wendy Pearlman

     

    Music Licensing

    “Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar” by Ibrahim Qashoush

     

    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn

    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments

    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys

     

    Fire Away by Forget the Whale

    Creative Commons - Attribution-Non Comercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Forget_the_Whale/you-me-talk-now/fire-away-instrumental

     

    Genocide by Silent Carrion

    Creative Commons - attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives 4.0 international (cc by-nc-nd 4.0)

    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silent_Carrion/Suprematism_EP_III_Sol/Silent_Carrion_-_Suprematism_EP_III_Sol_-_01_Genocide

     

    "Emotional Sad Piano Music" by Mattia Cupelli

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44

    1 hr 53 min
  • Episode 12 - The Revolutionaries (Part 2)
    There are too many amazing heroes among the Syrians who protested in 2011 to fit into a single episode. This is our second attempt at an ongoing effort to commemorate the heroes of the Syrian Revolution.
     
    Ghiath Matar, Fadwa Soleiman, Bassel Shehadeh, a certain iconic goalkeeper-turned-singer from Homs, and other incredible individuals make appearances in this tribute to people whose bravery and sacrifices deserve to be remembered.
     
    Thank you to @SubhiXCIV and @proud_damascene for the help you provided with this episode.
     
    Sources:
    We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Dr. Wendy Pearlman
    A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution by Samar Yazbek
    Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab
    “Syrian Christians Feel Pull From Both Sides In Civil War,” The Washington Times
    “The Days of Abd al-Basset” al-Jumhuriya.net
    “Abdel-Basset al-Sarout: Controversial Singer of Syria’s War,” Al-Jazeera
    Music Licensing
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
     
    "Emotional Sad Piano Music" by Mattia Cupelli
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44
    2 hr 20 min
  • Episode 11 - The Last Straw (May 25 to June 12, 2011)
    DISTURBING CONTENT WARNING
     
    There is no turning back for Syria after this episode.
     
    The Syrian Opposition is nearing its breaking point after months of being massacred, mass-arrested, and mass-tortured by the Assad regime.
     
    But all hell breaks loose when the public discovers the torture and murder of 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, leading to the largest protests to take place thus far as well as the first confirmed BATTLE between regime loyalists and armed opposition.
     
    Sources:
    “We’ve Never Seen Such Horror,” Human Rights Watch
    Syria by Dr. Samer N. Abboud
    The Fall of the House of Assad by Dr. David Lesch
    We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled by Dr. Wendy Pearlman
    My Country by Kassem Eid
    No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid
    The Home That Was Our Country by Alia Malek
    Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher
    Civil War in Syria by Bakzo, et. al
    The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
     
    Music Licensing:
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
    Arrow Arrow by Aglow Hollow
    Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/aglow_hollow/Proximate_Laws_Baba_Yaga_Booty_Calls/arrow-arrow
    Ultimate Metal by Loyalty Freak
    Creative Commons - CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Loyalty_Freak_Music/HYPER_METAL_/Loyalty_Freak_Music_-_HYPER_METAL__-_08_ULTIMATE_METAL
    Genocide by Silent Carrion
    Creative Commons - attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives 4.0 international (cc by-nc-nd 4.0)
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silent_Carrion/Suprematism_EP_III_Sol/Silent_Carrion_-_Suprematism_EP_III_Sol_-_01_Genocide
    2 hr 22 min
  • Minisode 1 - Daraa‘s Devastation

    Episode 11 - The Last Straw is taking longer than expected to edit. Here's an excerpt to tide everyone over until the full episode is done.

     

    Sources Cited:

    "We've Never Seen Such Horror" by Human Rights Watch

     

    Music Licensing

    Genocide by Silent Carrion

    Creative Commons - attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives 4.0 international (cc by-nc-nd 4.0)

    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silent_Carrion/Suprematism_EP_III_Sol/Silent_Carrion_-_Suprematism_EP_III_Sol_-_01_Genocide

     

    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn

    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments

    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys 

    47 min
  • Episode 10 - Syrian Kurds and the Revolution
    This might be our most controversial episode, yet.
     
    What is the relationship between the Assad regime and Syrian Kurds? How did Kurds react to the Syrian revolution? Why is it that a majority of Syrian Kurds came to prefer the YPG over the Free Syrian Army?
     
    A lot of it has to do with societal attitudes that go back decades before the Syrian Revolution.
     
    Peshmerge is a Syrian Kurd from Aleppo who participated in the 2011 protests and vehemently supported the Syrian Opposition. His opinion changed as the opposition gradually changed from a big tent movement to one dominated by racists and religious fundamentalism.
     
    Music licensing:
    Come and Get It By Scott Holmes
    Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/media-music-mix/come-and-get-it
     
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
    Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
     
    Genocide by Silent Carrion
    Creative Commons - attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives 4.0 international (cc by-nc-nd 4.0)
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silent_Carrion/Suprematism_EP_III_Sol/Silent_Carrion_-_Suprematism_EP_III_Sol_-_01_Genocide
    1 hr 23 min
  • UNLOCKED - Bonus Episode 11 - The Northern Revolution
    Yusuf was born in Manbij and gave up his job in Latakia to organize protests during the Syrian Revolution.
     
    The events of 2011 changed his life forever, resulting in the loss of his freedom (detained twice by the regime, plus once by ISIS) and eventually forcing him to leave Syria in 2015.
     
    Music licensing
    Fire Away by Forget the Whale
    Creative Commons - Attribution-Non Comercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Forget_the_Whale/you-me-talk-now/fire-away-instrumental
    1 hr 15 min
  • THE TERROR - Episode 1 - When Everything Changed (September 11, 2001)

    Twenty years ago, the world changed.

     

    The Terror is a 12-episode miniseries about 9/11, what led up to it, and it's aftermath. It's the story about how the Cold War led to 9/11 and the War on Terror.

     

    Aram Shabanian (@ShabanianAram on Twitter) has extensively researched the events of September 11, 2001 for two decades. He is currently a Non-State Actors Researcher at the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy.

     

    Music credits

     

    "Deep Noise" by Kevin MacLeod 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgB_L7Os5OA 

    "Deliverance" by Aliaksei Yukhenevich

    https://tunetank.com/tracks/3960-deliverance/ 

    "Emotional Sad Piano Music" by Mattia Cupelli

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JYHk_D5A44 

    1 hr 35 min

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A look back at what's happened in Syria since 2011.