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 Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto, 2016), and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.
STIR is a podcast by Leila Al-Shami (Burning Country, The Peoples Want) and Elia Ayoub (The Fire These Times, Hauntologies) and is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
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Leila Al Shami (Host, Lead Researcher, Editor). More: Bluesky, Mastodon and her Blog
Aydin Yildiz (Producer). More: Antidotezine
Hisham Rifai (Illustration)
Omar Offendum (Music)
Date of recording: June 3rd 2025