Ammar Abdulhamid Talks Syria

In one of my other, non-Lawfare lives, I run a newsletter called Dog Shirt Daily which has a daily livestream show called #DogShirtTV. I generally keep this work separate from Lawfare, as it involves a whole lot of material unconnected to the matters we cover here. But I had a conversation on #DogShirtTV this morning that I thought readers of this site would find useful and interesting. 

My interlocutor was an old friend, Ammar Abdulhamid, who is a longtime Syrian dissident who has been living in the Washington area since he went into exile almost 20 years ago. The conversation covers a lot of ground: From Abdulhamid’s personal history with Bashar Assad, with whom he went to school, to his analysis of the Islamist leadership of the rebel coalition that just ousted Assad. It’s an extremely informative and, in my opinion moving, conversation along a number of axes.