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This is a conversation with Asser Khattab, a Syrian writer who has reported on Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq for various international news outlets. We spoke about his essay for New Lines Magazine, "why I stopped writing about Syria."

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His essay: https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/...

Topics Discussed:

How Asser started writing about Syria
Pigeonholing as Arab journalists
Why Asser stopped writing about Syria
Us leaving Lebanon at the same time
Picturing safe spaces
What is 'normal'?
The role of Twitter in journalism
The dangers of living in Lebanon as an undocumented Syrian
Survivor's guilt and imposter's syndrome

Resources Mentioned:

A look at the Lebanon uprising through its chants https://shado-mag.com/do/a-look-at-th...
Syrian melancholy in Lebanon's revolution https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/conten...
Newlines Podcast https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/podca...
That Cairo Concert, Mental Health and Growing Up Queer in Lebanon (With Hamed Sinno) https://thefirethisti.me/2020/09/04/4...
Revolution everywhere’: A conversation between Hong Kong and Lebanese protesters https://lausan.hk/2020/revolution-eve...
Hong Kong’s Existential Crisis (with JP) https://thefirethisti.me/2020/03/09/e...
Syrian Prison Literature and the Poetics of Human Rights (with Shareah Taleghani) https://thefirethisti.me/2021/11/12/9...
Syria, Journalism and the Cost of Indifference https://thefirethisti.me/2020/04/17/1...
In the End, It Was All About Love (with Musa Okwonga) https://thefirethisti.me/2021/02/20/6...

Recommended Books:

Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou

This is episode 97*, not 96. My bad.