Fidaa al-Baali was a trusted source for international journalists. He used his video camera to document the Syrian war and anti-government protests. Baali died last Friday.
We talk about his contributions, and have an update of the continuing upheaval in his country.
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New York Times “Even as the Syrian war took bigger and bigger bites out of his life, Fidaa al-Baali never stopped trying to document the conflict — not when his brother, a rebel fighter, died in battle; not when security officials, trying to pressure him, arrested his father; not even when the rebel battalion he was embedded with unleashed a mortar attack that killed his fiancée.”
Guest:
- Anne Barnard, Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. She tweets @ABarnardNYT.
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