"A powerful new chronicle of the Syrian tragedy, based on interviews with regime insiders and rebel activists, seeks to explain the Assad government’s successful grip on power and the lengths to which it will go to maintain this."
Category: book reviews
Lebanon, our painfully ordinary country
A new book by Cambridge University's Andrew Arsan arguing Lebanon is "a microcosm of the contemporary world" successfully analyzes the country's ills, offering a helpful framework for Lebanese seeking change.
The future Palestinian present
"the Israeli state continues its war on the Palestinian past through censorship and on the Palestinian present through violence. This gives science fiction a creative potential that has yet to be truly explored: that of creating a new imaginary. “
When Palestinians, Israelis and Germans spoke about trauma in the West Bank
A recent book explores the conditions under which Palestinians and Israelis might be able to reconcile. The challenges are immense, but worth studying.
On Rohini Hensman’s ‘Indefensible’
Rohini wished to understand how something which is seemingly so ‘pro-human’ (anti-imperialism) could be used to justify that which is inherently ‘anti-human’ (state oppression).
On Yassin Haj Saleh’s book ‘The Impossible Revolution’
“Syrian society has been without a sense of historical purpose or a ‘project’ that could unite the people and align their expectations"
J.B. Ayoub 