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Episode Description
It's been 20 years since the Assad regime assassinated Samir Kassir, the Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian historian, journalist and writer in Beirut on June 2nd 2005. Joining Elia Ayoub and Leila Al-Shami today is Lebanese-French political researcher and academic Ziad Majed, a friend and comrade of Kassir, to talk about his legacy in the two decades that have passed given how much has changed since for Lebanon, Palestine and of course Syria.
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Credits
Elia Ayoub (host, producer, episode design),
the rosa artist (TFTT theme design), Wenyi Geng (TFTT theme design), Molly Crabapple (my profile pic), Rap and Revenge (Music), and Antidote Zine (Transcriptions)As always, thank you for listening and take care.
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