Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Yassin-Kassab, Robin
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Yassin-Kassab, Robin

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

"Explores how Syria's peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad...a sympathetic portrait of a...
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Author: Robin Yassin-Kassab
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Language: English
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Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Yassin-Kassab, Robin

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

$57.22
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Yassin-Kassab, Robin

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

$57.22
Author: Robin Yassin-Kassab
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
"Explores how Syria's peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad...a sympathetic portrait of a heroic uprising gone wrong, describing in all too painful detail the transformations wrought by armed groups and Assad's brutality. This is an important, honest, and insightful book, well worth anyone's time."―Washington Post

"Full of fascinating details about the early protest movements...lets us listen to many voices we aren't likely to hear on the news."―New York Review of Books

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. By 2018, Syria had become a warzone. Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new firsthand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists.

Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami expertly interweave these stories with an incisive analysis of the militarization of the uprising, the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of Syria's government in exacerbating the brutalization of the conflict. Through these accounts and a broad range of secondary source material, the authors persuasively argue that the international community has failed in its stated commitments to support the Syrian opposition movements.

This edition brings the story up to the present, with a new chapter that covers the internationalization of the conflict, including interventions by the United States, Russia, and Iran; the rollback of ISIS; the fall of Daraya and Aleppo; the crushing of local democracy; sectarian cleansing; and the forced exile of millions of Syrians.


Author: Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 02/20/2018
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780745337821

About the Author
Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular commentator on Syria and the Middle East. Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East.


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