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Season 7 · Episode 7

Syria: The Roots of Tyranny

0.048mMarch 14, 2017

The story of Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj who used fear and torture to turn 1950s Syria into a police state.

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Episode 5King Hussein of Jordan (1): Survival
Episode 6King Hussein of Jordan (2): On a Knife Edge
Episode 7Syria: The Roots of Tyranny
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Episode 23Israel's Volunteer Soldiers

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