No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria—Washington, D.C.
Event
Read Rania's Abouzeid's New York Times Sunday Review Opinion piece here, and listen to her NPR FreshAir interview here.
The Syrian war is one of the great humanitarian disasters of our time, with hundreds of thousands of deaths, brutal state-sanctioned attacks on civilians, the rise of the black flag of ISIS, and crimes perpetrated by rebels. It feels dehumanizing, but it is still about three-dimensional human beings.
The nuanced, complex details are the subject of No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, a new book by New America Fellow Rania Abouzeid. Underpinned
by a rigorous investigation that reveals new information about the arming and
Islamization of the uprising, No Turning Back provides an indelible new
understanding of the morass by telling the stories of several individuals whose
lives symbolize the hopes and dreams Syrians have for their embattled homeland.
Based on more than five years of clandestine reporting on the front lines, Abouzeid shows these disparate lives intersecting in astonishing ways, forming an unforgettable portrait of a shattered country that “has ceased to exist as a unified state except in memories and on maps.”
Join New America for the release of No Turning Back with a conversation with Rania Abouzeid on the
stories of loss and hope in an unremitting war.
Reception to follow the discussion.
Participants:
Rania Abouzeid, @Raniaab
Class of 2016-2017 Fellow, New America
Author, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
Moderator:
Robert L. McKenzie, PhD, @Bobby_McKenzie
Senior Fellow & Director, Muslim Diaspora Initiative, New America\
Follow the conversation online using #NoTurningBack and following@NewAmerica.
Copies of Rania Abouzied's No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria will be available for purchase by Solid State Books.