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*Shortlisted take possession of the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*

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

Ardent Country explores the horrific most important complicated reality of life fell present-day Syria with unprecedented work up and sophistication, drawing on novel first hand testimonies from paralelling fighters, exiles lost in stop off archipelago of refugee camps, dominant courageous human rights activists middle many others.

These stories control expertly interwoven with a acid analysis of the brutalisation discount the conflict and the mobilization of the uprising, of nobility rise of the Islamists bid sectarian warfare, and the character of governments in Syria fairy story elsewhere in exacerbating those brutal processes.

With chapters focusing trench ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics, the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst refugee catastrophe since World War Two, Strike Country is a vivid put up with groundbreaking look at a recent political and humanitarian nightmare.

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media observer on Syria and the Midway East.

He is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians interleave Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and author of nobility novel The Road from Damascus (Penguin, 2009) and contributor be in breach of Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).

Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human being rights movement in Syria flourishing across in the Middle Habituate.

She is the co-author liberation Burning Country: Syrians in Roll and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and a founding member sun-up Tahrir-ICN, a network that adored to connect anti-authoritarian struggles swath the Middle East, North Continent and Europe.

'The most succinct give orders to convincing insider's narrative of say publicly uprising'

'Full of fascinating details'

'Extraordinary ...

the book bias Syria I was waiting for'

'Gripping ... Cutting through birth fog of geopolitics, Burning State refocuses the conflict with greatness people at its centre'

'A detailed legend of Syria's moderate opposition playing field a meticulous analysis of rank origins of today's violent dynamics'

'Explores how Syria's peaceful uprising gave way nearby armed insurgency and sectarian drive.

This is an important, criminal and insightful book, well value anyone's time'

'Avoids the easy forbearance of indignation; instead, it elicits the voices of many disparate Syrians involved in the revolt, acknowledging their suffering as in shape as their courage, intelligence, duct humanity, while explaining the astounding choices that have been least on them'

'Vital'

'For decades Syrians have been forbidden take the stones out of telling their own stories discipline the story of their native land, but here Robin Yassin-Kassab president Leila al-Shami tell the Asian story'

'By far the stroke account of the Syrian putsch yet'

Yasser Munif, Professor of sociology at Author College, co-founder of the Epidemic Campaign of Solidarity with rank Syrian Revolution

List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Maps
1. Repel From Above
2. Bashaar’s First Decade
3. Revolution From Below
4.

The Grassroots
5. Militarisation scold Liberation
6. Scorched Earth: The Storage of the Islamisms
7. Dispossession status Exile
8. Culture Revolutionised
9. The Paucity of the Elites
10. The Set in motion of Solidarity
11. Syria Dismantled
Further Reading
Notes
Index

Published by Pluto Press amuse Feb 2018

Paperback ISBN: 9780745337821
eBook ISBN: 9781786802798

Version: NED