The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

Co-hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy interview guests Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer and Patrick Scharfe on the the civil war in Syria, which continues to dominate headlines across the globe. As negotiations and fighting continue, Leticia and Patrick spoke with the two historians of the Middle East to explore the nation’s diversity, the role of women in the Arab Spring, intervention, and the way forward. (Interview January 2014) An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/syrian-civil-war-alawites-womens-rights-and-arab-spring