The hopes and challenges for a post-war Syria

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This week marked one year since the fall of the Assad regime and the end of the Syrian Civil War. To understand how things are going — and where things are headed — we turn to Amr Al-Azm. He’s a Syrian historian at Shawnee University. When we spoke to him last year, there was an overwhelming sense that, finally, the war was over. Today, he joined the show from Doha, Qatar.

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