No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria—Washington, D.C.
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740 15th St NW #900
Washington, D.C. 20005 - 4PM – 5:30PM EDT
Read Rania’s Abouzeid’s New York Times Sunday Review Opinion piece , and listen to her NPR FreshAirԳٱ .
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, a new book by鶹ý Fellow Rania Abouzeid.Ի辱ԲԱ
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 鶹ý for the release ofNo Turning Backwith a conversation with Rania Abouzeid on the
stories of loss and hope in an unremitting war.
Reception to follow the discussion.
Participants:
Rania Abouzeid,
Class of 2016-2017 Fellow, 鶹ý
Author, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
Moderator:
Robert L. McKenzie, PhD,
Senior Fellow & Director, Muslim Diaspora Initiative, 鶹ý
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