Chloe Hadjimatheou
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16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
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It seemed to Zaki a clear signal at the time about the dynamics of her relationship with her husband and who had the higher status.
That's what Zaki took from it back when it happened.
She had influence over her husband, which, in just a few years' time, when the war starts, will matter more than ever.
Then she'll be forced to decide how to use that power, whether to use it to protect the Syrian people or herself.
I'm Chloe Hadjimefeu, and from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer, this is We Call Her Emma.
Episode 3, Asthma's Choice.
This is Osama Othman, and the story that will eventually connect him to asthma starts back when he's in his mid-40s, living in a town a short drive from Damascus.
He has all the ingredients for a happy life, a nice home, a wife he loves, children and a great job as an engineer.
But he can never be truly content because there's always something hanging over him.
He told me a story in Arabic, so we asked a Syrian actor called Majd to interpret for us.
Osama is right, of course.
Not only has Bashar failed to be the reformer he promised to be, but this soft-spoken man who says he can't stand the sight of blood will end up being far more brutal and murderous than his father.
But when the Arab Spring spreads across the Middle East in 2011, it feels like an unstoppable force.
I remember watching this all play out from afar, from a new posting in Washington, D.C.
I was working for the BBC at the time and I'd just finished a stint in the Middle East.
I'd been in Damascus just months before, working with a local BBC reporter trying to document some of the small reforms the government had achieved.
And lots of people felt sure that the Arab Spring would bypass Syria.
The regime just felt too powerful and the opposition too weak.
But then I'd also been in Egypt the previous year and seen protests with just 12 people.
Revolution seemed impossible there too.
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