Pirate Radio Gives Voice to Syrian Opposition
By BEN HUBBARD FEB. 10, 2014
Wasfi Massarani, a Syrian singer, on Radio Watan, one of more than a dozen radio stations that have sprung up in opposition to President Bashar al-Assad. Bryan Denton for The New York Times
ISTANBUL — The engineer gave the cue that the station was on the air, and the keyboard player began a mournful tune. Then the night’s guest joined in, his rich baritone filling the small, rooftop studio here as it was being broadcast by pirate transmitters in pockets across Syria, his war-torn home.
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