Robin Yassin-Kassab is a noted British Syrian writer and journalist. He has been commenting on the Syrian Revolution and war since 2011 with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, among others, and appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He also writes for the quarterly journal, Critical Muslim, and is the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (shortlisted for the Folio Prize) and a novel, The Road from Damascus. Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO which documents and investigates prisons run by both ISIS and the Assad regime. He lives in Scotland.

• Map viiiTimeline of events ixList of acronyms xiPreface: The Transitional Moment 11 Eleven Days 52 Moving to the Centre 543 Revolution Yesterday 844 Our Lives Count for Nothing 1075 March: ‘Some Blood Had to Be Spilled’ 1316 July: ‘Sunni or Druze?’ 1577 Broken Bridges 1898 Militia-Land 2169 Bani Umayya 24210 From the Rubble 265Afterword: Breathing Space 295Postscript 303Notes 307Further reading 323Acknowledgements 327Index 328

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Robin Yassin-Kassab is a noted British Syrian writer and journalist. He has been commenting on the Syrian Revolution and war since 2011 with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, among others, and appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He also writes for the quarterly journal, Critical Muslim, and is the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (shortlisted for the Folio Prize) and a novel, The Road from Damascus. Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO which documents and investigates prisons run by both ISIS and the Assad regime. He lives in Scotland.

• Map viiiTimeline of events ixList of acronyms xiPreface: The Transitional Moment 11 Eleven Days 52 Moving to the Centre 543 Revolution Yesterday 844 Our Lives Count for Nothing 1075 March: ‘Some Blood Had to Be Spilled’ 1316 July: ‘Sunni or Druze?’ 1577 Broken Bridges 1898 Militia-Land 2169 Bani Umayya 24210 From the Rubble 265Afterword: Breathing Space 295Postscript 303Notes 307Further reading 323Acknowledgements 327Index 328

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Robin Yassin-Kassab is a noted British Syrian writer and journalist. He has been commenting on the Syrian Revolution and war since 2011 with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, among others, and appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He also writes for the quarterly journal, Critical Muslim, and is the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (shortlisted for the Folio Prize) and a novel, The Road from Damascus. Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO which documents and investigates prisons run by both ISIS and the Assad regime. He lives in Scotland.

• Map viiiTimeline of events ixList of acronyms xiPreface: The Transitional Moment 11 Eleven Days 52 Moving to the Centre 543 Revolution Yesterday 844 Our Lives Count for Nothing 1075 March: ‘Some Blood Had to Be Spilled’ 1316 July: ‘Sunni or Druze?’ 1577 Broken Bridges 1898 Militia-Land 2169 Bani Umayya 24210 From the Rubble 265Afterword: Breathing Space 295Postscript 303Notes 307Further reading 323Acknowledgements 327Index 328

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