The Syrian Civil War Pt.1: Wassim Nasr Meets Al-Sharaa

Conflicted takes on… the Syrian Civil War.  In the wake of the
fall of Assad, with the Syrian Civil War over, at least for the
moment, Conflicted is bringing you a bit of a retrospective. In the
coming episodes, we’ll be inviting Syrians and other people who
experienced the conflict, from a multitude of different
perspectives, onto the show to tell us about their experiences of
the war. In doing so, we want to create a kind of narrative history
as we make sense of this most complex of conflicts from as many
angles as we can. In our first episode, we have an old friend of
the show Wassim Nasr, a journalist for France24, who Conflicted
Community members will remember from when we spoke to him about his
incredible reporting from the Sahel Region of Africa. But Wassim’s
reporting on Syria is equally enlightening, with some of the
greatest access you will see anywhere. He has been on the ground in
Syria throughout the conflict, and was in fact one of the first
Western journalists to meet with Ahmed Al-Sharaa, now the country’s
interim president, after Assad’s fall.  In this episode, we’re
setting up some crucial context for the Syrian Civil War through
the surprising rise of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), providing a
nuanced understanding of their evolution from an Al-Qaeda affiliate
to a pragmatic political force that ultimately took control of the
country. And then to top it all off, we’ll hear all about Wassim’s
two meetings with Al-Sharaa… New Conflicted Season 5 episodes will
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