Leila is joined by Swiss-Syrian academic, researcher and author Joseph Daher to talk about the removal of sanctions and future economic prospects for Syria.

Daher is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto, 2016), and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever.

STIR is a podcast by ⁠Leila Al-Shami⁠ (⁠Burning Country⁠, The Peoples Want) and Elia Ayoub (⁠The Fire These Times⁠, ⁠Hauntologies⁠) and is part of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support all of our projects please head out to ⁠Patreon.com/fromtheperiphery⁠

Credits and More:

• STIR is on Bluesky

• From The Periphery is on ⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠Bluesky⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠ Instagram⁠⁠, and has a website⁠⁠⁠

• Leila Al Shami (Host, Lead Researcher, Editor). More: ⁠Bluesky⁠, ⁠Mastodon⁠ and her ⁠Blog⁠

• Aydin Yildiz (Producer). More: Antidotezine

• Hisham Rifai (Illustration)

• Omar Offendum (Music)

Date of recording: June 3rd 2025