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Apr 2025

1h 28m

"We refuse to change our Syrian identity...

About this episode

The brothers welcome artist and activist Wael Tarbieh from the occupied Golan Heights to discuss the Israeli colonization of the region since 1967, the mixed ethnic and confessional makeup of the Indigenous population, and their decades-long steadfastness in retaining their political and legal identity.

For more information on the ethnic cleansing of the Golan, check out Al Marsad
https://golan-marsad.org/category/map-en/

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Date of recording: March 24, 2025.

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