Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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While we're setting up in her small apartment, Bissan's mother serves us sweet tea.
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We're all sat on cushions on the floor.
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On one side is me, Gary who's recording and Sarah who's interpreting and on the other side is Bissan and her two young boys.
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Omran, the youngest, is eight and his older brother Omar is ten.
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They're so young, but both of them sit patiently watching over their mum, like they never want to leave her side.
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Bissan grew up in Yarmouk, on the southern edge of Damascus.
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For a long time, it was home to the largest Palestinian community in Syria.
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Even though it's often called a refugee camp, it evolved over decades into a busy neighbourhood.
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When the revolution started in 2011, Yarmouk quickly became a central battlefield between opposition forces and those remaining loyal to the regime.
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Bissan's talking to us in Arabic so we've used an Arabic-speaking actress to voice her words.
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The disparity in age is pretty shocking.
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Bessang was barely a teenager.
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It's important to say that this is unusual in Syria too.
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The legal minimum age for marriage is usually 18, but during the war there was a surge in these underage unions as poorer families worried about young women being left unprotected during a time of such instability.
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Bissan's new husband was a fighter with the main rebel faction at the time, the Free Syrian Army.
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The couple moved north to Idlib and Bissan had her first child, Omar.
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But then her husband was shot by a regime sniper and badly injured.
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He had to travel to Jordan across the border from Syria to get proper treatment, which meant that Bissan was left alone, 15 years old and pregnant for the second time.
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Travelling south meant going through regime-controlled areas.
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For someone who'd been living in an opposition area, that was a risk.
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