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They were on opposite sides during Syria's civil war and now must do lifesaving work together. A makeshift brick wall divides ...
A Syria for All Its People — Two Books on an Unnecessary War . Rania Abouzeid and Alia Malek's books, based on years of in-country reporting, are an answer to those who say no one truly knows ...
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War, by Delphine Minoui. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books have always gone to war, serving as comfort ...
But the story is set at a very specific time in Syria's war. It's the time when really, in late 2013, when the revolution has at this point almost — it's becoming very evident that it's failed.
Up until the age of 8, I had a normal, happy childhood in Syria. It was a simple life with my family and Syria was beautiful. It had rich resources. Then, in 2011, the war began. Life became ...
“Syria’s Secret Library,” by Mike Thomson, tells the story of a hidden book collection in a bombed-out building that functioned as “an oasis of normality” in the midst of war.
Books A Marine-Turned-Novelist Takes on the Syrian War Elliot Ackerman’s “Dark at the Crossing” subscribes to the jaundiced assessment that war is anything its fighters want it to be.
After going viral for his documentation of the Syrian War, Muhammad Najem has returned, with a new graphic novel that chronicles his experience.. In 2018, a then 15-year-old Muhammad made ...
This book offers a poignant and beautifully illustrated homage to the heartbreaking realities of the Syrian refugee crisis, framed as a father's letter to his young son on the brink of a difficult ...