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The war in Syria is becoming less and less about Syria. At the diplomatic level, it has turned into a sordid spectacle where foreign powers with conflicting and probably irreconcilable objectives—most notably Russia, the United States, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia—squabble amongst themselves. In Europe, it has turned into a debate about immigration and the tightening of border controls. To the extent that the Syrian people do not figure at all, the goal is no longer a just peace but pacification.
Cutting through this fog of geopolitics, a new book by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al Shami re-focuses the conflict with the people at its center—the people who rose up against a regime which, as the authors say, was “fascist in the most correct sense of the word.” Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War tells a story of heroism on the home front, of mainly unarmed civilians struggling to organize, resist and survive.
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