Blood Between Us

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Syria After the Fall of Assad

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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In a matter of days, an intense rebel offensive brought down one of the world’s most entrenched regimes, ending the sixty-year Baathist dictatorship and the Assad family’s grip on Syria. The speed of the collapse stunned observers. Yet this was no sudden fall. It was the culmination of a revolution forged through years of protest, repression and resistance.The fall triggered celebrations and freedoms Syrians had not experienced in decades. But the cost has been immense, and the wounds of violence are unresolved. As the country enters a precarious new phase, urgent questions remain: can justice be delivered and a fractured society rebuilt? Or will competing powers and unaddressed grievances pull Syria back into conflict?Drawing on first-hand reporting and interviews across Syria, Robin Yassin-Kassab traces this pivotal moment through the lives of those who lived it. The Blood Between Us is a portrait of a country suspended between collapse and possibility – and a clear-eyed account of who will shape what comes next.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-04
Mått153 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagSaqi Books
ISBN9781849251068

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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