Travel influencers are flocking to Syria – but at what cost?

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They are saying they’re there for tradition. However are journey influencers in Syria crossing an moral line?

Syria’s conflict continues, however that within the video blogs of journey influencers. In recent times, a wave of journey vloggers have gone on journeys to Syria, organized and facilitated by the Syrian authorities. Lots of the influencers say they’re apolitical, however critics say they assist the Syrian authorities whitewash conflict crimes and current an image that Syria is totally moved on from the conflict. So are journey influencers in Syria breaching an moral line?

On this episode: 

• Mohammad Al Abdallah, (@mohammad_syria) govt director, Syria Justice and Accountability Centre

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Ashish Malhotra with our host Malika Bilal. Khaled Soltan fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of viewers growth and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s govt producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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