Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/ Patrick Higgins
Guerrilla History
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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This episode is a release of our sister program The Adnan Husain Show.
Adnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the entire Cold War with Dr. Patrick Higgins, a Middle East historian, co-editor of Liberated Texts and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. His article "Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic" is mandatory reading and the state of the field on this dark history. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2023.2199487?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstractart
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| 0:00.0 | M. Allah, Rahman and Raheim. |
| 0:15.0 | Salam, hello. Welcome to you all to the program. I'm Adnan Hussein, historian of the medieval Mediterranean and Islamicate world. |
| 0:25.3 | And I have a wonderful episode for you today that hopefully will also go out on Gorilla |
| 0:32.7 | History podcast. |
| 0:36.5 | My co-host of that podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Henry unfortunately can't be with us today, but we will have this on both the audio feeds |
| 0:45.3 | for the Adnan Hussein show and Gorilla History, as well as, of course, on video on the |
| 0:50.3 | YouTube channel for the Adnan Hussein show. |
| 0:53.3 | But before I introduce the topic and my guest |
| 0:58.2 | today, I just wanted to say, of course, you know if you listen to this channel that I used to do |
| 1:04.7 | a podcast called The Mudgellis, which was sponsored by the Muslim Society's Global Perspectives |
| 1:09.2 | Project at Queen's University, where I teach. |
| 1:12.5 | But in October of last year, 2024, when I was prevented from being able to record Francesca Albanese's lecture, we had invited her. |
| 1:25.0 | I had her permission, the organizers' permissions to do so. |
| 1:28.2 | The university administration prevented me from recording it. |
| 1:31.8 | And at that point, I decided that it was important and necessary in order to preserve the kinds of conversations we're going to be having now with scholars, with activists, with historians about the very serious and important issues that we're just dealing with in the world without, you know, censorship or pressure being put on us that I had to start this on this channel. So I just would like you to like this video, subscribe to the channel, share it to your friends. We're going to be having |
| 2:03.0 | analysis by a scholarly expert that you're not going to hear on a lot of mainstream platforms, |
| 2:08.9 | even many platforms on the alternative left media. So I really want you to get this out there. |
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| 2:27.1 | It's patreon.com slash guerrilla history. So you can support us on those things. But the main, |
| 2:32.0 | an important thing is that this knowledge be available |
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