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Hello and welcome to it could happen here.

I'm your host today, it's Shrine and I'm going to be flying solo for the next few episodes.

We're going to be talking about Syria spoiler alert. I am Syrian and I think there's a lot of history and news about Syria that really goes under the radar and not a lot of people know about.

So I thought it would be important to shed some light about how Syria became ruled by a dictatorship family.

The Assad family have destroyed Syria.

Imagine a country being run by the mafia. They're very powerful, very secretive, very, very rich. There are no numbers that can illustrate the scale of Syria's loss and destruction literally because the United Nations hasn't been able to calculate the death toll for years.

So as I mentioned, these episodes are going to be about Syria. The first two will be about how Hop is less said roast to power, which has since led the Assad family to have control of Syria for more than half a century.

And then the one following that will be about his son Bashar, who is the current dictator of Syria.

And that one will have more topical information, maybe more like economic stuff versus historical information, which we're going to start with. But I think understanding the history of the Syrian government provides vital context to understanding the present.

And there is a lot to cover here and a lot that I won't be able to get to, but hopefully we can chip away at it. And this is a good semi coherent summary of how Hop has climbed his way to the very top of Syrian authority.

So the Assads and Arabic it's as said so apologize is like go back and forth between those two, but they're from a cardaha originally a village in northwest Syria in the serial coastal mountains. The family name as said goes back to 1927 when Ali Suleiman, who was Hop is the Assad's father, changed his last name to as said, which is Arabic for the lion.

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