Podcast: First Newroz After the Fall – After the Fall (Montreal)

by | Oct 19, 2025 | Levant, Podcast

This podcast was made by AFTER THE FALL / Dispatches from the Women’s Revolution in North-East Syria, Montreal

https://afterthefallpod.libsyn.com/episode-five-first-newroz-after-the-fall

Our final episode takes us to the Newroz celebrations in Qamislo, where we see Syrian musician Samih Choukeir perform. Once back in Montreal, Virginia talks to Khuzama and Cedric from the media project Fajawat about the importance of Choukeir’s performance and their perspectives on the changing climate in Syria. Newroz 2025 was openly celebrated in Damascus for the first time and the holiday has taken on new significance in the wake of Assad’s fall. However, as of October 2025, the transitional government in Damascus has decided to exclude Newroz from the list of official holidays in Syria. We end the episode with an update from Khuzama and Cedric that was recorded in late September 2025 and includes talk about the massacres that took place in Sweida in July.
 

Notes:

citations

On Samih Choukeir: https://www.syriawise.com/samih-chouker-the-very-first-voice-of-the-syrian-revolution/, https://syriauntold.com/2021/04/09/remembering-the-syrian-revolution-through-song/

On Sweida: https://interstices-fajawat.org/suwayda-2025-chronology-of-a-predictable-massacre/

https://hawarnews.com/en/sweida-announces-formation-of-unified-national-army-under-name-national-guard

More information on the situation Khuzama and Cedric talked about from April 2025 when activists from Sweida were arrested on their way to a workshop in Raqqa:

https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/women-arrested-on-their-way-to-raqqa-we-were-subjected-to-torture-36914 –

Links

Khuzama and Cedric’s media project, Fajawat:

https://interstices-fajawat.org/

Kongra Star’s website: https://kongra-star.org/ 

Music credits: Theme music is from Koma Şehîd Hêva Ya Şehba available online at https://jintv.net/ku/posts/post1729280299/ and interlude and outro music is from Shahriyar Jamshidi https://shahriyarjamshidi.bandcamp.com/album/my-sunset-land-rojava. This episode also featured audio recorded by me at the Qamislo Newroz Festival in March 2025 as well as audio of Samih Choukeir’s performance there that was recorded by Ronahi TV and is available online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODd_WMe55VM

A Short List of Further resources on Syria, Kurdistan, Rojava, etc. (things I read or listened to while making this podcast)

List of media to check out re: Syria from Fajawat website: https://interstices-fajawat.org/its-not-complicated-a-note-to-help-you-understand-syria/

Podcasts:

https://thefirethesetimes.com/ (specifically https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/03/04/ocalans-statement-and-the-future-of-the-pkk-w-dilan/ and Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution: https://fromtheperiphery.com/syria-the-inconvenient-revolution-pod/)

https://thedigradio.com/Thawra/

https://ckut.ca/playlists/shows/15267 featuring Shahrzad Arshadi’s podcast “The Future is Now”

https://thekurdishedition.com/

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/what-does-the-pkks-disarmament-mean-286340407/

Books:

Rojava in Focus: Critical Dialogues. Edited by Cihad Hammy and Thomas Jeffrey Milley, AK Press, 2025.

Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home. By Jenni Keasden and Natalia Szarek, Active Distribution, 2023.

My Road from Damascus: A Memoir. By Jamal Saeed, ECW Press, 2022.

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War. By Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab, Pluto Press, 2018. 

First Newroz After the Fall

by Virginia | After the Fall: Dispatches from the Women's Revolution in North-East Syria

Podcast: Unrest in Sweida (Part 2) – From The Periphery Media Collective (UK)

by | Sep 5, 2025 | Levant, Podcast

Credits and More:

This podcast was made by FROM THE PERIPHERY MEDIA / The Inconvenient Revolution, UK

https://www.patreon.com/posts/140712528

Khuzama and Cedric from the Fajawat grassroots initiative return to STIR to talk to Leila about the July unrest in Sweida province, which included massacres against members of the Druze community. Our guests were in Sweida during the unrest, so share their moving first-hand testimony as well as provide analysis on implications for the future of Syria as a whole.
STIR is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to ⁠Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠

 

STIR is also on ⁠Bluesky⁠!

Date of recording: September 5th 2025

 

STIR 6/ Unrest in Sweida, Part 2

by Leila Al-Shami | From the Periphery Media - The Inconvenient Revolution

Podcast : Unrest in Sweida – From The Periphery Media Collective (UK)

by | May 8, 2025 | Levant, Podcast

Credits and More:

This podcast was made by FROM THE PERIPHERY MEDIA / The Inconvenient Revolution, UK

https://www.patreon.com/posts/stir-2-unrest-in-128972762

Leila is joined by two Sweida-based activists, Khuzama and Ian from the Fajawat grassroots initiative, to talk about the recent unrest in Syria in which members of the Druze community were targeted.

In the first part, they got into what happened, the fault lines, the role of Israel as well as the agreement that was reached.

The second part, starting at roughly 23 minutes in, is a dive into Sweida and the Syrian revolution, the role of women and the situation since the fall of the Assad regime.

STIR is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to ⁠Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠

STIR is also on ⁠Bluesky⁠!

Date of recording: May 8th 2025

 

STIR 2/ Unrest in Sweida

by Leila Al-Shami | From the Periphery Media - The Inconvenient Revolution

Podcast : We Will Need Time – The Final Straw Radio (USA)

by | Dec 29, 2024 | Levant, Podcast

This podcast was made by THE FINAL STRAW RADIO, Asheville, NC, USA

https://thefinalstrawradio.libsyn.com/we-will-need-time-two-libertarian-communist-perspectives-on-events-and-possibility-in-syria 

In this episode, you’ll hear Cedric and Khuzama, two libertarian communists with connections to Syria and editor contributors to the blog interstices-fajawat.org , speaking about their observations of what’s been going on leading up to and through the ouster of Bashar Al-Assad, as well as complications among various factions on the ground and the view from the Syrian diaspora. The situation on the ground is changing fast, so check the show notes for this episode on our website for links to news sources that can be helpful in keeping up.

And if you care to hear a perspective from an anarchist combatant affiliated with Tekosina Anarsist, which works with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria affiliated with the SDF and Rojava Revolution, you can find our episode from December 22nd and the transcribed zine.

We Will Need Time: two libertarian communist perspectives on events and possibility in Syria

by The Final Straw Radio

Podcast: Why do French love Poutine – Dogma. Uncomfortable conversations about war (Warsaw)

by | Mar 31, 2023 | North-East, Podcast

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This podcast was made by DOGMA / Russian Anarchists in Warsaw (Poland)

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The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army highlighted the anarchist movement’s unpreparedness for war, both theoretically and practically.

In the podcast “Dogma: Uncomfortable Conversations About War,” you will hear conversations with anarchists from different European countries about how historical and political context influences the movement’s analysis of war. We will discuss uncomfortable questions about unreflective colonialism, imperialism, lack of solidarity, and the weakness of anarchist theory in the face of the multifaceted reality we have had to confront.

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The podcast is produced by activists from the Belarusian Anarchist Group in Warsaw in partnership with the Pramen group.

Date of recording: March 31st 2023

 

Почему французы любят Путина? / Why do the French love Putin? (RUSSIAN)

by Беларусские анархисты в Варшаве / Russian Anarchists in Warsaw | Догма. Неудобные разговоры о войне / Dogma. Uncomfortable conversations about war