30 Recommended Books on Syria
by: The Markaz Review editors
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, translated by Ibtihal Mahmood (Hurst, 2017)
Under Hafez Assad, Syria’s leading intellectual and revolutionary thinker Yassin al-Haj Saleh was imprisoned from 1980 to 1996. At the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, he went into hiding moving from city to town, eluding the shabiha, the country’s notorious intelligence services. In 2013, his wife Samira Khalil, a detainee herself and political activist disappeared with the human rights lawyer and civil society activist Razan Zaitouneh, after armed men raided the Violations Document Center, in Douma. In hiding al-Haj Saleh wrote over 380 articles, which provide the basis for this book, which includes a foreword by Robin Yassin Kassab.
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The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh, translated by Ibtihal Mahmood (Hurst, 2017)
Under Hafez Assad, Syria’s leading intellectual and revolutionary thinker Yassin al-Haj Saleh was imprisoned from 1980 to 1996. At the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, he went into hiding moving from city to town, eluding the shabiha, the country’s notorious intelligence services. In 2013, his wife Samira Khalil, a detainee herself and political activist disappeared with the human rights lawyer and civil society activist Razan Zaitouneh, after armed men raided the Violations Document Center, in Douma. In hiding al-Haj Saleh wrote over 380 articles, which provide the basis for this book, which includes a foreword by Robin Yassin Kassab.
Read the full article here: https://themarkaz.org/30-recommended-...
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
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