Chloe Hadjimatheou
speaker
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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Until the presenter asks... The last question, during all the war times, you didn't flee the country.
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Did someone recommend you to flee to save your life, and what was your response?
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It was never about my well-being or my children.
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It was a deliberate attempt to shatter people's confidence in their president.
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And suffice to say, these offers were foolish.
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The truth was, several years into the war, as Osama and Farid were gathering evidence of the crimes of the regime, Asma was becoming more embroiled in them.
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It seems she was busy with much more than war widows and NGO work.
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I had a long list of people I wanted to meet in Damascus.
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And right at the top of the list was Jihad Yajiji.
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He's the editor of the Syria Report, which for years had journalists on the ground inside Syria, tracking the regime's business and economic activities.
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It's such a strange feeling being in Damascus surrounded by opposition activists and journalists.
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For so many years, Syria was a place we could only report on from afar.
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And now, here we were, on a bright sunny day, sitting at tables in the street, sipping coffee and winding back the clock to a few years into the war when asthma began to emerge as a driving force behind the Syrian regime.
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Jihad remembers Asma coming out publicly in favour of the war.
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And then, over the next few years, he started noticing her name begin popping up more and more, connected to various businesses and schemes in Syria.
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Then, around the end of 2020, she made a really bold move.
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Rami Makhlouf was Bashar's cousin and a man many people thought of as the regime's banker.
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He even encroached into areas of Asma's interest.
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For years, Asma must have felt frustrated.
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As long as Rami was around, there was no way she could expand her NGO and economic and business interests.
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