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Men ride bicycles past damaged buildings along a street in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus, December 2013.

Can independent radio journalism broadcast in Syria today?

December 19, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Until last year, Honey al-Sayed was the host of a drive-time radio program with a strong following of middle-class Syrians in Damascus. But when the government of Bashar al-Assad began to doubt her loyalty, she fled Syria to create her own radio station.

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