What Comes After Assad Attacks Idlib, Sonia Shah Organization: Resisting Terrorism and Sexism Through Girls Education in Pakistan and Chicago

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AP EXPLAINS SYRIA IDLIB
In this Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, smoke rises after a TNT bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in a neighbouring village to Kafr Nabuda, in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition’s only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over one million displaced Syrians, is likely to be the last major theater of battle after seven years of brutal civil war. Courtesy / AP Photo
In this Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, smoke rises after a TNT bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in a neighbouring village to Kafr Nabuda, in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition’s only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over one million displaced Syrians, is likely to be the last major theater of battle after seven years of brutal civil war. Courtesy / AP Photo
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AP EXPLAINS SYRIA IDLIB
In this Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, smoke rises after a TNT bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in a neighbouring village to Kafr Nabuda, in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition’s only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over one million displaced Syrians, is likely to be the last major theater of battle after seven years of brutal civil war. Courtesy / AP Photo
In this Sept. 19, 2013, file photo, smoke rises after a TNT bomb was thrown from a helicopter, hitting a rebel position during heavy fighting between troops loyal to president Bashar Assad and opposition fighters, in a neighbouring village to Kafr Nabuda, in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition’s only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over one million displaced Syrians, is likely to be the last major theater of battle after seven years of brutal civil war. Courtesy / AP Photo
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What Comes After Assad Attacks Idlib, Sonia Shah Organization: Resisting Terrorism and Sexism Through Girls Education in Pakistan and Chicago

By Worldview Staff
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On Today’s Show:

  • Forces loyal to Bashar al Assad are assembling for an assault on Idlib, the last opposition stronghold in Syria. 
  • Years before the Me Too movement, one privileged girl, Winnetka, Illinois teen, Sonia Shah, decided to elevate women’s voices.