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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

English

By (author): Leila Al-Shami Robin Yassin-Kassab

*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land.

Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists among many others. These stories are expertly interwoven with a trenchant analysis of the brutalisation of the conflict and the militarisation of the uprising, of the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of governments in Syria and elsewhere in exacerbating those violent processes.

With chapters focusing on ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics, the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid and groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 389g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Feb 2018
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780745337821

About Leila Al-ShamiRobin Yassin-Kassab

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East. He is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto 2016 2018) and author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Penguin 2009) and contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi 2014). Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and across in the Middle East. She is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto 2016 2018) and a founding member of Tahrir-ICN a network that aimed to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East North Africa and Europe.

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