Mustafa Talas-Diaries

The October War of the year seventy-three was and still is a white spot in the history of the Arab wars against Israel, and while the details of the Egyptian narrative are unfolding day after day, some ambiguity still surrounds the Syrian narrative about the war, which is what this episode of the Memoirs program attempts to reveal. Through the novel of the first man in the Syrian army during the war, the memoirs of General Mustafa Tlass.
Through Tlass’s memoirs and other testimonies from Egyptian military personnel, the episode examines the reasons for the decline of the Syrian army after it achieved great progress in the first days of the war. It also attempts to answer the question: “Did Sadat deceive Syria in this war? Or did the Syrian military leaders commit mistakes that transformed Victory to defeat?