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Why Freedom Failed in Syria

CONFLICTED

An ex-Al Qaeda jihadi turned MI6 spy and a former monk turned filmmaker, have been embedded at the heart of conflicts in the Middle East. Together Aimen Dean and Thomas Small unpack the realities of war, fundamentalism and their global implications through first-hand experience.

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thomas speaks to journalist and author Anand Gopal about his wonderful new book Days of Love and Rage, a profoundly moving and intellectually stimulating history of the Syrian revolution told from the perspective of the northern town of Manbij.

Anand and Thomas discuss:

 Anand's first-hand witnessing of 9/11

 How Anand embedded with the Taliban

 Revolution as a crisis of faith and collapse of social reality

 Manbij as a microcosm of the tensions of Syrian modernity

 The failure of Manbij's democratic experiment and the limits of liberalism

 How ISIS exploited both material grievances and liberal norms

 Baathism: egalitarian ethos vs authoritarian reality

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This episode was produced by Thomas Small and edited by Lizzy Andrews.
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