QAMISHLI, Syria — In a tiny room on the fourth floor of an unplastered brick house, Gandy Khalidee talks to his listeners over the airwaves in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli.
“Three, two, one — on air,” said Khalidee, the presenter of radio station Voice of Nas (Voice of Knowledge in Kurdish; Voice of the People in Arabic), also known as Von FM. “Did you support the national team during the last soccer match against Iran?”