# Assala Nasri Returns to Damascus After 15 Years

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2100923839685267491
- Source language: Hebrew
- Target language: English
- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 2026-09-18
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years) Nasrin Abu Ghosh here. Hello. Hello, Elior.

[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=4) What's the story? So, the story is, first of all, at long last, the dream is becoming a reality, as you said. Uh, after 15 years away from her homeland, the Syrian singer the most prominent one, Assala Nasri, returns to Damascus,

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=20) the city where she was born and raised. And indeed, with this visit as you can see, they welcomed her like a heroine who finally returned at last to her country. Uh, it stirred up, uh, around This whole return caused quite a storm, huh?

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=36) And it turned from a musical matter into a political one. Why?

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=39) To understand this story, we need to go back to 2011.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=43) Asala Nasri was the first to express support for the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, and this created, uh... a very intense dispute between her and the Syrian establishment, which expelled her from the Artists' Syndicate,

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=59) and also banned her from performing and singing in Syria, so she was forced to spend 15 years outside, uh... her country. When she returned, of course, there was uh, a musical matter. She released a song called "Asala Rja'at" Assala's return there to Damascus, where she tells a story of longing, of how connected she is to her homeland.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=84) Um. A voice that left no dry eye, at least among Syrians.

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=89) Let's listen. Come on.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=122) She's got one hell of a voice. Absolutely.

[2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=124) Yes, I can see you were moved. I really love this great singer, and tonight, she will perform for the first time in 15 years onstage in Damascus, and it will truly be a picture of her victory over the fallen Assad regime,

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=140) and it will also be under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the Artists' Union.

[2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=146) Yes. And what did they have to say, alongside the very veteran and esteemed actress named Muna Wassef, about Assala's return? Let's listen together.

[2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=157) Assala is not just a singing voice. Not just a commitment to art, its values, and the proper, lofty morality.

[2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=158) Assala is a singer Syria is proud of. What can I tell you? I mean, it goes without saying.

[2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=167) But when I want to take part, I don't know if I'll be here. Of course we'll take part. All of Syria will turn out for Assala.

[3:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=183) Amazing. Nasrin. Amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you.

[3:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/AM8G7QYD3Bdr/en/assala-nasri-returns-to-damascus-after-15-years?t=186) Thank you very much. Okay, until—