Gamal Mansour: What exactly happened in Syria’s 13-year civil war

In this marathon three-hour conversation with Gamal Mansour, Ashfaaq Carim discusses the genesis of the 2011 Syrian uprising and how it turned into a civil war.

A Syrian-Palestinian who was forced to move to Canada in 2012, Mansour is now a political scientist researching the strategies that Syria's business sector - that the leadership of Bashar al-Assad - employed so that they could remain autonomous from the state.

Mansour discusses the impact of the war on both the Arab world and the West, how the refugee crisis made Europe and North America move to the right, the rise of the so-called Islamic State group; and how brutal and devastating Assad's tactics in the war were.

In the final stretch, the discussion turns to the conflicting views of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and what its capture of Damascus means.

UNAPOLOGETIC is a show that unapologetically looks at the life, times and views of some unapologetic and not so unapologetic humans. Hosted by Ashfaaq Carim