By Robin Yassin-Kassab,Leila Al-Shami

In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to call for the overthrow of the executive of Bashar al-Assad. this day, a lot of Syria has develop into a warzone the place overseas reporters locate it virtually most unlikely to document on existence during this devastated land.

Burning Country explores the awful and intricate fact of existence in present-day Syria with unprecedented element and class, drawing on new first-hand tales from competition combatants, exiles misplaced in an archipelago of refugee camps, and brave human rights activists between many others. those tales are expertly interwoven with a trenchant research of the brutalisation of the clash and the militarisation of the rebellion, of the increase of the Islamists and sectarian war, and the function of governments in Syria and somewhere else in exacerbating these violent processes.

With chapters concentrating on ISIS and Islamism, local geopolitics, the recent grassroots innovative companies, and the worst refugee drawback seeing that global warfare , Burning Country is a bright and groundbreaking examine a modern day political and humanitarian nightmare.

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