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Category: book reviews

‘Assad or we burn the country: how one family’s lust for power destroyed Syria’

October 16, 2019May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub

"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."

Posted in book reviews, levant, syria

Lebanon, our painfully ordinary country

October 11, 2019May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub1 Comment

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.

Posted in book reviews, lebanon, levant

The future Palestinian present

September 3, 2019May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub

"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. “

Posted in book reviews, levant, palestine/israel

When Palestinians, Israelis and Germans spoke about trauma in the West Bank

May 22, 2019May 10, 2020 Joey Ayoub

A recent book explores the conditions under which Palestinians and Israelis might be able to reconcile. The challenges are immense, but worth studying.

Posted in book reviews, levant, palestine/israel

On Rohini Hensman’s ‘Indefensible’

July 3, 2018May 10, 2020 Joey AyoubLeave a comment

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).

Posted in book reviews

On Yassin Haj Saleh’s book ‘The Impossible Revolution’

October 3, 2017April 24, 2019 Joey AyoubLeave a comment

“Syrian society has been without a sense of historical purpose or a ‘project’ that could unite the people and align their expectations"

Posted in book reviews, levant, syria

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