What Happened to Syria?

What Happened to Syria?

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What Happened to Syria? episodes

  • Bonus Episode 4 - Damascus to DC (Part 2) feat. Mamoun
    Damascus to DC tells the story of Mamoun, a Syrian-Lebanese attorney whose life journey took him across the world from his hometown Damascus to Washington D.C. after he was forced leave Syria.
     
    Part 2 focuses on Mamoun's involvement in the 2011 protests, how he helped combat disinformation by contacting media outlets, and why he hasn't been able to return to Syria since 2012.
    59 min
  • Episode 3 - Days That Changed Everything (March 15 to March 25, 2011)
    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
     
    Music licensing
    Come and Get It By Scott Holmes
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    Arrow Arrow by Aglow Hollow
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    https://freemusicarchive.org/music/aglow_hollow/Proximate_Laws_Baba_Yaga_Booty_Calls/arrow-arrow
     
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
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    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
    1 hr 14 min
  • Bonus Episode 3 - Damascus to DC (Part 1)

    Today, we're reaching into the vault and pulling out a pilot episode from mid-2020, before we knew what exactly this podcast would look like.

     

    Damascus to DC tells the story of Mamoun, a Syrian-Lebanese attorney whose life journey took him across the world from his hometown Damascus to Washington D.C. after he was forced leave Syria. Part 1 focuses on Mamoun's upbringing, what it was like to live in Syria when Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father, and how the first protests began in 2011.

     

    You can find us on Twitter at @SyriaPod and email us at [email protected]. 

     

    If you like our show, please considering us for $1 or more at patreon.com/whathappenedtosyria  https://www.patreon.com/whathappenedtosyria?fan_landing=true 

    1 hr 9 min
  • Bonus Episode 2 - The Syrian Revolution feat. Suhail al-Ghazi
    What did protestors in Syria want? How does it feel to voice your opinion and show solidarity with your fellow citizens for the first time in a totalitarian state? How did protests in one part of the country differ from another? How quickly did the Assad regime resort to brutalizing and massacring protestors? (answer: very quickly)
    Suhail al-Ghazi is Non-Resident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute and a Syrian dissident from Damascus now based in Istanbul. He was arrested twice for political activism before he joined the 6.6 million people forced to flee the country. You can follow him on Twitter at @putintintin.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 2 - The Good, The Bad, and the Propaganda feat. Dr. Idrees Ahmad
    This week, we look at a topic that has dominated the discourse surrounding Syria: media coverage and disinformation.
     
    Dr. Idrees Ahmad is lecturer in journalism at the University of Stirling with a doctorate in sociology and a focus on international conflicts. He is also the author of The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War. Idrees has spent years tracking online propaganda and its impact on the international response to events in Syria.
     
    As the title suggests, we get into the best and worst coverage of Syria since 2011, and run down the list of grifters who have made a career spreading disinformation. *cough* Max Blumenthal, Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, Aaron Mate, Rania Khalek *cough*
     
    Next week, we'll pick the main story back up with the events of March 15 to March 31, 2011.
     
    Music licensing
    Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn
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    Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments
    Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys
    1 hr 7 min
  • UNLOCKED Bonus Episode 1 - What Comes Next
    This is a prototype bonus episode. Future bonus episodes will feature interviews with Syrians or experts in the topics we discuss.
    Our first set of Bonus episodes will be released for free. In the future, they will be available only to our Patrons on Patreon. 
     
    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
    15 min
  • Episode 1 - The Calm and the Storm (March 15, 2011)

    Here it begins! Our ten-year retrospective look at Syria. This first episode works its way to the 15 of March, 2011, the day most-commonly cited as the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

    This is the start of Season 1, which will focus on 2011. Season 2 will focus on 2012, so on and so forth. 

     

    Sources cited:

    Syria by Samer N. Abboud

    No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid

    Butterfly by Yusra Mardini

    We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled by Wendy Pearlman

    My Country by Kassem Eid

     

    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

    1 hr 16 min

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