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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as syria)
avg rating 4.42 — 149,049 ratings — published 2022
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as syria)
avg rating 4.16 — 190,132 ratings — published 2019
An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as syria)
avg rating 3.81 — 637 ratings — published 2016
The Map of Salt and Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as syria)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,482 ratings — published 2018
Death Is Hard Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as syria)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,043 ratings — published 2016
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria (ebook)
by (shelved 81 times as syria)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,454 ratings — published 2017
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as syria)
avg rating 4.30 — 844 ratings — published 2016
Other Words for Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as syria)
avg rating 4.40 — 35,785 ratings — published 2019
Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as syria)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,485 ratings — published 2019
Sea Prayer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as syria)
avg rating 4.11 — 62,070 ratings — published 2018
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as syria)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,369 ratings — published 2016
القوقعة: يوميات متلصص (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as syria)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,177 ratings — published 2007
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as syria)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,198 ratings — published 2015
No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as syria)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,127 ratings — published 2018
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as syria)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,118 ratings — published 2017
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as syria)
avg rating 4.12 — 22,791 ratings — published 2014
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as syria)
avg rating 4.12 — 270 ratings — published 2017
Refugee (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as syria)
avg rating 4.35 — 87,853 ratings — published 2017
A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as syria)
avg rating 3.81 — 509 ratings — published 2012
The Sandcastle Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as syria)
avg rating 3.89 — 43,548 ratings — published 2012
The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as syria)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,300 ratings — published 2013
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as syria)
avg rating 4.14 — 815 ratings — published 2018
مديح الكراهية (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as syria)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,845 ratings — published 2006
The Dark Side of Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as syria)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,635 ratings — published 2004
The Heart of Aleppo: A Story of the Syrian Civil War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as syria)
avg rating 4.40 — 7,777 ratings — published 2018
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as syria)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,989 ratings — published 2017
Damascus Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as syria)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,028 ratings — published 1989
Damascus Station (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as syria)
avg rating 4.15 — 27,753 ratings — published 2021
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as syria)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,579 ratings — published 2017
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as syria)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,821 ratings — published 2016
لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as syria)
avg rating 3.04 — 3,656 ratings — published 2013
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as syria)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,936 ratings — published 2018
The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as syria)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,506 ratings — published 2017
The Battle For Syria: International Rivalry In The New Middle East (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as syria)
avg rating 4.13 — 302 ratings — published 2016
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as syria)
avg rating 4.31 — 12,528 ratings — published 2015
The Pianist from Syria: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as syria)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,168 ratings — published 2017
Homes: A Refugee Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as syria)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,427 ratings — published 2018
Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as syria)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,076 ratings — published 2018
To søstre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as syria)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,869 ratings — published 2016
Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as syria)
avg rating 3.86 — 348 ratings — published 2017
Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as syria)
avg rating 3.94 — 607 ratings — published 1988
خمس دقائق و حسب: تسع سنوات في سجون سورية (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as syria)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,062 ratings — published 1995
Planet of Clay (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as syria)
avg rating 3.56 — 296 ratings — published 2021
My Country: A Syrian Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as syria)
avg rating 4.17 — 271 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as syria)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,690 ratings — published 2018
The Cat Man of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as syria)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,979 ratings — published 2020
الصراع على السلطة في سوريا: الطائفية والإقليمية والعشائرية في السياسة (ebook)
by (shelved 21 times as syria)
avg rating 3.70 — 228 ratings — published 1979
Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as syria)
avg rating 4.55 — 505 ratings — published 2026
Nour's Secret Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as syria)
avg rating 4.36 — 788 ratings — published 2022
“Born in Syria. Shaped by the world. Rooted in the language of proximity.”
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“But generosity of spirit is not enough: our responses must be grounded in wisdom. The headless heart may lead to outcomes little better than the heartless head. So we need to be a little more specific about what generosity of spirit implies. What shoud it mean in the context of Syria, and, by extension, what should it mean more widely in the global context of refugees?”
― Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
― Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
