Hi, everybody, welcome to episode 63 of the Alexis L podcast.

This is at least a half seriousserious special, I suppose, because we are in the second week

of the new regime in the suit.

We're a half-Syrian podcast.

We are a half-Syrian podcast, and we both had our own run-ins or with the Assad regime.

So first of all, your dad was actually imprisoned by the – was it the Assad or was it?

No, no, no.

It was pre-Assad.

The Bath Party.

I don't really know much about the pre-Assad.

I don't really know a huge amount about two in history,

but it was a, it was a Barthist party, wasn't it?

And your dad was actually,

initially was in, well, tell us about it.

He was imprisoned and tortured by somebody.

It may have told this on the podcast before,

but it doesn't matter.

And I'm no expert.

All I've got is personal connection and personal story to tell.

But I think there was, Syria was ruled by French colonial empire.

And then there was the revolution, which then...

There was the Ottoman Empire.

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