Syria and Iraq are two and three.
Syria was just full-on bloodbath, 400,000 people dead at this point, millions of refugees,
Syria is the only country that produced something like ISIS.
Syria has always been on a crossroads.
Syria which is just outside of Aleppo which probably doesn't stand anymore and you were talking about the gates of Hell
Syria and the Hezbollah.
Syria and Indonesia and so, and Germany, and it's just been, it's been really gratifying.
Syria but post-exilic you get the Book of Jonah apparently um and this is
Syrian Islam is very close to that.
Syrians on the ground are trying to protect in whatever way they can their own cultural heritage.
Syrian conflict in the Syrian refugee crisis is also tied to water water shortages in the rural areas because of drought you bankrupt a lot of farmers
Syrian refugees, white people in the United States living shorter lives than their parents live-- white poor people-- the intractable problem
uh Syria and the result on every front as we'll talk about I think it's fair to
through Syria , if you've got some other pipelines that are coming out here, you've got Hezbollah here that can act
In Syria , we all in secondary school have to wear a military uniform because, every morning at least once a day, we would all be called to the play yard
Greater Syria was divided into five pieces by the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
Ordinary Syrians in the early months of the war in Syria knew very well throughout 2011 and the first half of 2012
Outside Syria , however, interested parties across the globe continue to debate whether or not it had descended into civil war.
that Syria was experiencing civil war at that point.
like Syria in the present.
But Syria turned into sort of the worst case scenario.
Because Syria is not a tribal society.
But Syria has never been like that.
Because Syria is such a gifted society, and so many of our inventions come from that part of the world, going right back to the alphabet,
from Syria but it's kind of you know Eternal wherever it happens to be and you see it play out also in domestic
My Syria show is must see TV for anyone who wants to witness what the kindest society in the world looked like just a few short years ago, albeit
to Syria from the UK, was there something darker happening underneath what was going on?
In Syria , there's chaos and civil war.
Then Syria , just across the border, totally collapses.
Especially Syria because of its proximity to Iraq, and former militants coming from Iraq into Syria to fight Assad.
about Syria and Egypt, it became clear to me, we're not in as bad a shape obviously.
greater syria that extended from turkey down to egypt and then there was a notion of becoming of it becoming part of an arab state
the Syrian asylum seeker, if they hear him talking about how he really needs to quit smoking because he has this one-year-old now and his wife is giving him a hard time,
More Syrians were killed on Saturday night in a chemical weapons attack than had been let into the US in the whole of this fiscal year.
44 Syrians have been allowed into the US since October the 1st, 2017.
in Syrian Christian monasteries of working with Greek texts and translating them into Syriac, which is another Semitic language, and thus, a lot closer to Arabic
of Syrian refugees, paused the overall refugee resettlement program, temporarily banned non-citizens from seven majority Muslim nations.
So Syrian activists have trained themselves up.
And Syrian bureaucracy is like a labyrinth.
Because Syrians care very, very deeply about their cultural heritage.
Virtual Syrian university that when it's over, just basically move from the digital space to the analog space, lands like a spaceship,
pipelines here going through Syria .
Now to Syria .
is though that uh Syria still remains a very divided country and the new Syrian authorities are still seen as very controversial in a lot of the things
In Lebanon and Syria and Palestine, they cook seasonally.
We launched a Save Syria Schools campaign, and we are on a mission to introduce this early warning system, which gives children and their teachers 7 to 10 minutes,
of the situation in Syria , is that, with the huge number of refugees going all over the world-- one of-- I gave a talk in Canada about how they could earn
or leaving Syria today and putting your kids who can't swim on a rubber raft into the Mediterranean.
in countries like Syria or Iraq that have open-armed conflicts, more traditional armed conflicts.
Let's say in Syria , well, I no longer can do this.