{"id":37634,"date":"2013-09-05T11:45:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37634"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:45:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T18:45:04","slug":"syrian-exiles-express-desperation-at-on-going-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/09\/05\/syrian-exiles-express-desperation-at-on-going-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Exiles Express Desperation At On-Going Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/jay_and_fadia_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Missing in the Congressional debate entirely, is what ordinary Syrians think of President Obama\u2019s plan to strike Syria. While it is difficult these days to contact Syrians abroad, and because the atmosphere for journalists there is extremely dangerous, Syrian voices are not easy to come by. But here in the US, a number of Syrian expatriates and exiles are watching the proceedings over their country\u2019s fate with bated breath. <\/p>\n<p>Two such people are Jay \u201cJihad\u201d Abdo, a well known Syrian actor, and his wife, Fadia Afashe, an artist and women\u2019s rights activist. The two of them have been living in the US since the Syrian rebellion began, pushed out because of increasing pressure from the Bashar Al Assad regime to denounce anti-government protesters. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with them 9 months after an earlier conversation. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VPDExLphsKU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/jay_and_fadia_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Two Syrian exiles, Jihad Jay Abdo, and his wife, Fadia Afashe, are currently in living in the US, having fled the Syrian government&#8217;s repression. Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with them about their complex views on the impending military strike in Syria. <\/p>\n<p>Click here to watch a video of the interview: http:\/\/youtu.be\/VPDExLphsKU<\/p>\n<p>Bipasha Shom recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37642,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions\/37642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}