Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East. He is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Penguin, 2009) and contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and across in the Middle East. She is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and a founding member of Tahrir-ICN, a network that aimed to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceMaps1. Revolution From Above2. Bashaar’s First Decade3. Revolution From Below4. The Grassroots5. Militarisation and Liberation6. Scorched Earth: The Rise of the Islamisms7. Dispossession and Exile8. Culture Revolutionised9. The Failure of the Elites10. The Start of Solidarity11. Syria DismantledFurther ReadingNotesIndex

'The most succinct and convincing insider's narrative of the uprising'

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East. He is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Penguin, 2009) and contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and across in the Middle East. She is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and a founding member of Tahrir-ICN, a network that aimed to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceMaps1. Revolution From Above2. Bashaar’s First Decade3. Revolution From Below4. The Grassroots5. Militarisation and Liberation6. Scorched Earth: The Rise of the Islamisms7. Dispossession and Exile8. Culture Revolutionised9. The Failure of the Elites10. The Start of Solidarity11. Syria DismantledFurther ReadingNotesIndex

'The most succinct and convincing insider's narrative of the uprising'

Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East. He is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and author of the novel The Road from Damascus (Penguin, 2009) and contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).Leila Al-Shami has worked with the human rights movement in Syria and across in the Middle East. She is the co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto, 2016, 2018) and a founding member of Tahrir-ICN, a network that aimed to connect anti-authoritarian struggles across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.

• List of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceMaps1. Revolution From Above2. Bashaar’s First Decade3. Revolution From Below4. The Grassroots5. Militarisation and Liberation6. Scorched Earth: The Rise of the Islamisms7. Dispossession and Exile8. Culture Revolutionised9. The Failure of the Elites10. The Start of Solidarity11. Syria DismantledFurther ReadingNotesIndex

'The most succinct and convincing insider's narrative of the uprising'