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Explaining the Syrian war

Ruth Tarrant

25th November 2015

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The Hip Hughes History Channel on YouTube is full of short and engaging briefings on key US politics topics and an increasing number of global politics topics too - there are over 300 videos for you to dip into. This video below provides a 9 minute explanation of the Syrian civil war:

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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