Bonus - The First Months of Post-Assad Syria w/ Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Subscribe now for the full episode! Derek welcomes back historian Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi for a discussion about developments in Syria under the new government, which toppled that of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024. They talk about the massacres of Alawites at the beginning of this year, the non-governmental militias still operating in the country, clashes between Druze and Bedouin armed groups in the southern city of Suwayda, Israeli involvement, Syrian Democratic Forces activity in the northeast of the country and Turkey’s role, and whether the government under Ahmed al-Sharaa can make a “Syria for all Syrians.” Check out Aymenn's book The Conquest of al-Andalus: a Translation of Fath al-Andalus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.4	That's conversation. To resolve and renown. Hello, Hello, American Prestige listeners, it's Derek, and I am very pleased and grateful really to be joined once again by Iman Joada Tamimi, historian and translator who does a lot of work on
1:05.3	Syria. He's been on the program before. It was on a couple of times in quick succession to
1:10.3	help us understand what was happening
1:11.6	with the rebel offensive that eventually ousted Bashar al-Assad late last year.
1:17.6	And he's also published translator. He's got a chronicle, a translation of a chronicle called
1:24.9	Fatal Andalus, the conquest of Al-Andalus that was published earlier this year.
1:30.4	And maybe we can talk, I'm in a little bit about what you're working on now later on.
1:34.9	But let's, first of all, thank you for coming back to the program.
1:38.9	Well, it was very pleasure to be on. Yes, thank you.
1:41.5	So, I mean, basically, we want to talk about what's been going on these
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