Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution

Leila is joined by US-based academic Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad to talk about her recent book ‘Searching for Solidarity: Revolutionary Dreams and Radical Social Movements’. This episode explores the erasure of Syrians from their own story during the revolution, and the implications an ...  Show more

Leila and Justin are joined by Razan Rashidi, Executive Director of The Syria Campaign, to talk about Transitional Justice. Tens of thousands of Syrians were forcibly disappeared at the hands of the Assad regime, as well as other actors. Only a small number were released from pri ...  Show more

Khuzama and Cedric from the Interstices-Fajawat grassroots initiative return to STIR to talk to Leila about the July unrest in Sweida province, which included massacres against members of the Druze community. Our guests were in Sweida during the unrest, so share their moving firs ...  Show more

Leila is joined by Armenian writer, scholar and member of From The Periphery media collective, Dr Karena Avedissian. Karena recently returned from a trip to conduct research and build ties with the Armenian community in Northeast Syria. We spoke about an article she wrote - Armen ...  Show more

Leila is joined by Swiss-Syrian academic, researcher and author Joseph Daher to talk about the removal of sanctions and future economic prospects for Syria. Daher is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The ...  Show more