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UNLOCKED: Bonus Episode 17 - The Christians of Syria
This episode was originally recorded in 2024, shortly after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, and released on our Patreon that Christmas.…
UNLOCKED: BONUS EPISODE 16 - Christmas in Syria
Milad majid! Did you know that Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7th? This episode examines the millennia-long history of Christianity in Syria, the ways that Christians have…
2023 Christmas Special (aka “Don’t Cut Aid to Syria! And other countries!”)
Merry Christmas! Sadly, the World Food Program has had their funding cut by 60 percent. Also, we are currently listed among the Top Five Syria-related podcasts on Feedspot.com…
Episode 15 (Full) - Crimes Against Humanity (June 24 to July 31, 2011)
The Assad regime starts to crack under the pressure of increasingly large, passionate, cross-sectarian protests. Millions of people are taking to the streets and voicing dissent for the first time in…
Episode 15D - Seven Million Protestors
We're breaking up Episode 15 - Crimes Against Humanity (June 24 to July 31, 2011) into four smaller episodes before putting out the full thing. The Assad regime starts to crack under the pressure of…
Episode 15C - Crimes Against Humanity
We're breaking up Episode 15 - Crimes Against Humanity (June 24 to July 31, 2011) into four smaller episodes before putting out the full thing. The Assad regime starts to crack under the pressure of…
Episode 15B - Ibrahim Qashoush’s Revolutionary Song
We're breaking up Episode 15 - Crimes Against Humanity (June 24 to July 31, 2011) into four smaller episodes before putting out the full thing. The Assad regime starts to crack under the pressure…
Episode 15A - Lost Legitimacy
We're breaking up Episode 15 - Crimes Against Humanity (June 24 to July 31, 2011) into four smaller episodes before putting out the full thing. The Assad regime starts to crack under the pressure…
2022 Christmas Special (This Podcast is Still Alive)
Explaining the absence and examining the Syrian refugee crisis, as well as the situation for refugees across the world in 2022. Sources / Quotes: “Boat carrying Syrian refugees lands in Southern…
UNLOCKED - BONUS EPISODE 15 - Calluses on the Soul: Bernd Debusmann reflects on war reporting in Lebanon and Syria
Bernd Debusmann was a young Reuters bureau chief when Lebanon imploded into civil war and anarchy in the 1970s, during which Syria and Hafez al-Assad became intimately involved the conflict. This…
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,…
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…
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…
THE TERROR - Bonus Episode 1 - Navy SEAL, CIA, Firefighter: Jeff Butler Reflects on 9/11 and the War on Terror
Jeff Butler's multifaceted career made him the perfect guest for THE TERROR. A warfighter, a CIA counterterrorism specialist, and now a first responder. His perspective is truly one-of-a-kind. You…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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