What Happened to Syria?

Fadil al-Mhameed lived right next to the Omari mosque in 2011, when Daraa became the epicenter of the Syrian Revolution. He witnessed, participated, and documented the uprising and crackdown by the re...

11 Juni 202151min

Protests have broken out across the country and the death toll from state violence against protestors has already broken the triple digits. Syria is in shock after the events of March 25, when more th...

4 Juni 202143min

Hasan al-Kassab (@HasanAlKassab2 on Twitter) was a medical student from Raqqa in 2011, when the protests began. Today, he's a Syrian revolutionary activist living in Romania.   Hasan joins us in t...

3 Maj 202121min

They fell in love while risking their lives to protest against a regime that routinely arrests, tortures, and executes dissidents.   Noura Ghazi decided she wanted to be a lawyer at 13, when her fat...

26 Apr 202128min

This is our first "biographical" episode. This week, we're going to look at individuals who risked, and sometimes lost, their lives to engage in non-violent resistance to tyranny.   Sources cited: The...

26 Apr 202126min

What is one to do after being exiled from your homeland?   That's exactly the situation Mamoun found himself in eight years ago. Coming of age and finding a path for oneself is difficult enough wi...

19 Apr 202156min

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.   P...

12 Apr 202158min

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).   T...

11 Apr 20211h 13min