Nowhere to Hide

More than a decade after Syrians first took to the streets, Assad has only tightened his grip on power. But determined survivors and advocates like Mazen Darwish are seeking accountability for the regime’s crimes. On a long, arduous road through European courts, they hope to put the truth on record – and shape a more hopeful future.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

As Russia enters the Syrian war on the side of Assad, Moscow opens up a new front: a state-sponsored disinformation machine to whitewash the regime’s crimes. In spite of the disarmament deal, another large-scale chemical attack reveals a grim truth: Assad has retained a secret stockpile.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

With international disarmament teams busy dismantling Syria’s declared chemical arsenal, the Assad regime turns to an insidious new weapon: chlorine. Hussam Nahhas and colleagues embark on a perilous journey to document these latest crimes, which impact Syrian women in particular.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

After the devastating Ghouta attack, calls for an international intervention to halt war crimes in Syria grow louder. In Geneva, the US and Russia strike a deal to destroy the Assad regime’s chemical weapons stockpile.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

Following a deadly chemical attack on eastern Ghouta in August 2013, UN investigator Angela Kane and her team set out to verify the use of poisonous chemical agents in the Syrian city. Around the world, people wait to see what they will find.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

Amid growing reports of chemical warfare in Syria, medical student Hussam Nahhas risks his life to prepare doctors, nurses and civilians for the worst. In France, Laurent Van der Stockt finally receives the results of his toxic samples.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

As the Syrian revolution descends into a bloody civil war, French war journalist Laurent Van der Stockt reaches a besieged pocket outside Damascus, where he finds rebels and local doctors battling the latest horror from the arsenal of Bashar Al-Assad.

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Nowhere to Hide is a podcast by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin.

Host: Tobias Schneider
Scripting and production: Karam Shoumali, Eliza Apperly, Inji El Bakry, Tobias Schneider
Sound design and composition: Benjamin Nash
Editorial support: Katharina Nachbar, Amanda Pridmore
Illustrations: Molly Crabapple
Cover design: Sonya Sugrobova

We are grateful for generous support from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs.

For more on the research behind the podcast, visit chemicalweapons.gppi.net.

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Do you have thoughts or feedback? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at chemicalweapons@gppi.net.

Nowhere to Hide will launch on May 25. The seven-part series traces the actions, decisions and experiences of individuals who came close to chemical attacks in Syria. For more on the project, check out our web hub: https://chemicalweapons.gppi.net/.