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.

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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

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