(9 Dec 2024)
EGYPT SYRIAN CELEBRATIONS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cairo, Egypt – 9 December 2024
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1. Various of Syrian teachers and students celebrating the downfall of the government of President Bashar Assad in a Syrian school in Cairo, dancing, raising flags of Syrian revolutionaries and chanting slogans
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ranim Hossam Joudi, deputy principal of a school in Cairo:
"When they announced that they overthrew the regime and liberated the capital Damascus, it was the best news I have heard in my life because we’ve experienced a lot of injustice and lived under oppression. We have been displaced. Yes, we are comfortable and living in our country (referring to Egypt) but we are away from home. We lost property and family members. There were a lot of martyrs. And that was the hardest part."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cairo, Egypt – 8 December 2024
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3. Various of Syrian fast-food shops
4. Various of people walking past Syrian shops
5. Various of storefront of Syrian fast food shop
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Emad Tebian, Syrian chef living in Cairo:
"It’s a sense of happiness that I cannot describe, it’s like giving candy to a small kid. It’s a joy that we have been anticipating for 13 years. After 13 years, it just happened in one day. I swear to God, it’s such a great joy. It’s indescribable honestly. I cannot even describe it."
7. Various of establishing shot of Mahmoud Adnan, a Syrian who works in a nut store
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Adnan, Syrian who works in a nuts store
"I was following the news on TV and it was an overwhelming sense of happiness when I saw what happened, that Syria is finally liberated, Aleppo, Homs and Damascus. It is such an overwhelming joy that I literally cannot describe."
9. Adnan weighing products on scale
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Adnan, Syrian who works in a nut store:
"There have been a lot of tragic (events). Many relatives of mine have martyred during this campaign but the most important matter is the motherland. That is the most important thing. I cannot forget that my maternal uncle for example was martyred and that my grandma and grandpa were all martyred for this moment. So this is a moment that is impossible to forget."
11. Adnan inside nut store
12. Various of group of Syrian friends sitting outside a Syrian barbershop’s store ++NIGHT SHOTS++
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabea Mekky, a Syrian living in Egypt:
"For me personally, Syria comes after God. So certainly, I would love to return and live there between my people in the alleys that I came from and was raised in. All of us Syrians left unwillingly. No one wanted to leave. On the contrary, we were all forced to leave and it was beyond our control. There was nothing that we could have done about it."
14. Various of Syrians watching news on TV
STORYLINE:
Syrians in Egypt were ecstatic after the Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family.
Rebels entered the capital over the weekend and overthrew President Bashar Assad in a stunning advance.
Teachers and students danced and waved the revolutionary flag in celebrations at a Syrian school in a suburb of Cairo on Monday.
Syrians in Egypt said they felt an overwhelming sense of joy after they heard the news of the Syrian government’s collapse.
Emad Tebian, a Syrian chef in Cairo, said he spent more than a decade waiting for this moment.
"After 13 years, it just happened in one day. I swear to God, it’s such a great joy. It’s indescribable," he said.
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