EP 57 - The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad w/Robin Yassin-Kassab

In episode 57 of Tahrir Podcast, Robin Yassin-Kassab joined to discuss his new book, "The Blood Between Us: Syria After the Fall of Assad" (Saqi Books, 2026). This book offers a first-hand account of Syria's abrupt transformation after the collapse of the brutal Assad regime, tracing how decades of protest, repression and resistance culminated in the swift fall of a sixty-year dictatorship. Drawing on reporting and interviews gathered across the country, Robin Yassin-Kassab follows the Syrians living through this fragile new chapter, weighing the freedoms unlocked by the regime's end against the unresolved violence, competing powers and open questions of justice that will determine whether Syria rebuilds or slides back into conflict.Robin Yassin-Kassab is a leading British Syrian writer and journalist. He is a prominent voice on the Syrian Revolution and war, with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, and regular appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He is a contributing editor to the quarterly journal Critical Muslim, and the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War" (shortlisted for the Folio Prize), as well as the novel "The Road from Damascus". Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO that documents and investigates detention facilities run by both ISIS and the Assad regime.Link to book: https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-blood-between-us/?utm_source=Tahrir&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=TahrirBloodBetweenUsEpisode on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=RBl1godKL5UStreaming everywhere! ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/TahrirPodcast⁠⁠⁠Reach out! [email protected] us on Patreon for as low as $2 per month ($20 per year)!https://www.patreon.com/TahrirPodcast