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 increasingly large, passionate, cross-sectarian protests. Millions of people are taking to the streets and voicing dissent for the first time in their lives, putting the regime's legitimacy in doubt for the first time in decades.
Also, we are currently listed among the Top Five Syria-related podcasts on Feedspot.com https://podcasts.feedspot.com/syria_podcasts/. Check us out there and help us get up to the #1 spot.
Sources / Quotes:
*Civil War in Syria *by Baczko, et. al
*The Impossible Revolution *by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
*We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled *by Dr. Wendy Pearlman
*Assad or We Burn the Country *by Sam Dagher
*Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War *by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami
*A Woman in the Crossfire *by Samar Yazbek
*Syria *by Dr. David Lesch
*Shatter the Nations *by Mike Giglio
“Syrian Revolution Song,” The Arabic Student
http://www.thearabicstudent.com/2012/02/syrian-revolution-song.html)
Syrian Revolutionary Dabke - YouTube (“Yalla Erhal ya Bashar” by Ibrahim Qashoush)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCS8SsFOBAI)
“Amnesty accuses Syria of crimes against humanity,” BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14032765)
“Syria: Assad no longer legitimate, says Clinton,” BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-14115762)
“At least 30 killed in factional fighting in Syria” by Mariam Karouney and Oliver Holmes, Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-syria-idUKTRE76F26V20110718?edition-redirect=uk)
