Syria, every mention
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Autonomy & Defense Policy in the 21st Century
- ▶ 2:03 Christian Brose You can go back to what, you know, we've seen play out in Iraq and Syria, um, and even before that.
The Career Changing Magic of Strategic Compartmentalization
- ▶ 17:28 Susan Rice And I think, you know, you have to have some measure of that wherever it comes from to work on those kinds of issues and not, you know, be crushed, for example, by the weight of the humanitarian crisis in Syria. 2 times in the scene
Blockchain in War Zones
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Pruden And those that survived, women and children, were enslaved and sent to Syria for the terrorist group.
- ▶ 7:42 Alex Pruden So because of that experience, my team was then sent to another Middle Eastern flashpoint, ah, this time southern Turkey, where we were training, ah, Syrian rebels. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:22 Alex Pruden In Iraq, the institutions are hopelessly corrupt, and in Syria, those institutions that were there to serve the people actually had turned against them, and had, as a result, the people were suffering terrible fates. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service
- ▶ 16:31 Gayle Tzemach Lemmon So if you look at Syria, the last stand of ISIS in the town of Raqqa, you had ISIS really using human shields.
a16z Podcast | The Law (and Tech) of Warfare
- ▶ 29:42 Benjamin Wittes It is led by a person who does not have the United States' best interests at heart, and who wants to reestablish hegemony over a region that involves a lot of countries that don't want to be subject to Russian hegemony, and also has…
a16z Podcast | VR, AR, and Beyond: The New Medium of Human Experience
- ▶ 22:15 Jason Rosenthal Chris is too modest, but, like, if you haven't seen his film, uh, Clouds Over Sidra, which is about the Syrian refugee crisis, I think you can watch here, right, in the Innovators' Pavilion.
a16z Podcast | Mobility and the Global Refugee Crisis
- ▶ 0:15 Sonal Chokshi Lena Sergi Attar, who is the co-founder of the CARM Foundation, which focuses on education, development, and smart aid for displaced communities in Syria and in neighboring countries. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:21 Lena Sergi Attar But for Syria specifically, we have a situation where we have over five million Syrian refugees outside the country, over six million internally displaced, which means that there are more than half of the original population of Syria now… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:09 Lena Sergi Attar Probably it's the least pleasant to be living in the IDP camps that are inside Syrian borders, and then the refugee camps that are right outside Syrian borders. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:12 Tony Blinken If you visit Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, these are the countries that have received the most Syrian refugees because, as Lina said, they're, they're the neighboring countries. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:14 unnamed speaker In fact, visiting in Beirut, one of the community centers established by, in this case, Caritas, a Catholic relief to support refugees from Syria, you'd go from room to room.
- ▶ 16:48 Lena Sergi Attar I can't overestimate how important this smartphone has been to Syrian refugees, and even to the Syrian revolution in general, and social media, and YouTube, and connecting information, getting information out from inside Syria, recording… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 Lena Sergi Attar The solution is how do you introduce Syrian refugee kids or any group of kids
- ▶ 33:38 Lena Sergi Attar Syria is really much, much beyond a political problem at this point.
a16z Podcast | On Productivity, Immigration, Trump, and Media
- ▶ 38:09 Ezra Klein Video, a six minute explanation of the civil war in Syria, which is just an incredible video.
a16z Podcast | Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality
- ▶ 4:05 Chris Milk Um, and showing them these films where they would, we might not find themselves in a Syrian refugee camp, which was the first film that we shot in Jordan.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 32:18 Marc Andreessen Um, a good friend of mine, Chris Schroeder, who used to work in the State Department and then ran a big internet company, um, spent two years in the Middle East, and he has, he's highly networked in the, throughout Egypt and Syria and… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Startups as Science Experiments -- Can VC Disrupt Academia?
- ▶ 18:35 Marc Andreessen Um, so he's a former internet CEO and State Department official who traveled around the Middle East for a year and a half and has friends in all these countries, you know, Jordan and Egypt and all throughout the, Syria and all throughout…
a16z Podcast | Ben and Marc Explain (Practically) Everything – Part 1
- ▶ 24:13 Marc Andreessen The most vivid example is a good friend of mine, Chris Schroeder, wrote an entire book over the last three years called Startups Rising, which is a story of high-tech entrepreneurship in the Middle East, and he basically traveled all…