Burning country : Syrians in revolution and war / Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yassin-Kassab, Robin, author.

Al-Shami, Leila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Assad, Bashar, 1965-.

Assad, Bashar.

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.

Syria.

Syria--Politics and government--2000-2024.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Summary:

In 2011, Syrians took to the streets to demand the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war-zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to go. Burning Country explores the reality of life in present-day Syria. Drawn from over fifteen years of work with the people of Syria, it reveals the stories of opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and many others. Examining new grassroots revolutionary organisations, the rise of ISIS and Islamism, and the emergence of the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid account of a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare. -- from back cover.

Contents:

Revolution from above

Bashaar's first decade

Revolution from below

The grassroots

Militarisation and liberation

Scorched earth : the rise of the Islamisms

Dispossession and exile

Culture revolutionised

The failure of the elites

The start of solidarity

Epilogue : October 2015.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 3, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

1-78371-800-5

OCLC:

934238371