Brian Lehrer Weekend: Syria; the Penny Verdict; Shop Listener: Food
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Lairer here. |
| 0:01.4 | Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend, |
| 0:03.0 | three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:05.0 | packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.6 | So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. |
| 0:11.2 | on WNYC and WNYC now, what the revolution in Syria might mean for Syrians and for everybody else. |
| 0:41.9 | People are asking so many questions. |
| 0:43.7 | Will the new leaders respect democracy and human rights? |
| 0:47.0 | More than the two generations of brutal rule by the Assad family? |
| 0:51.4 | Can the many refugees, millions, safely return home? Why have the United States and Israel |
| 0:57.6 | already staged military operations there in the very first days of Assad being gone? Could the revolution |
| 1:04.3 | come next to Syria's ally Iran? And as our guest on this today laments in a new article, why wasn't the UN doctrine of the responsibility to protect ever enforced over the last decade and more as the regime's war crimes mounted? |
| 1:20.7 | Our guest is Muhammad Sergi, Persian Gulf regional editor for the news organization Semaphore. |
| 1:26.7 | He is also from Syria's second largest city, Aleppo. |
| 1:30.3 | Muhammad, thanks so much for your time today. |
| 1:32.1 | Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:34.0 | Thank you for having you, Brian. |
| 1:35.4 | Would you tell us some of your own story? |
| 1:37.2 | First, I see you grew up in Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, like I said, |
| 1:41.1 | population around 2 million, if I have my numbers right? |
| 1:45.8 | And you were working as a journalist in New York in 2012 covering finance, but switched at that time to document your home |
| 1:53.9 | country's revolution. You wrote that you had left Syria after high school because you could. |
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