{"product_id":"burning-country-new-edition-robin-yassin-kassab-9780745337845","title":"Burning Country - New Edition: Syrians in Revolution and War","description":"\u003cp\u003e*Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2017*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a war zone where foreign journalists find it almost impossible to report on life in this devastated land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication, drawing on new first hand testimonies from opposition fighters, exiles lost in an archipelago of refugee camps, and courageous human rights activists among many others. These stories are expertly interwoven with a trenchant analysis of the brutalisation of the conflict and the militarisation of the uprising, of the rise of the Islamists and sectarian warfare, and the role of governments in Syria and elsewhere in exacerbating those violent processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith chapters focusing on ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics, the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid and groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Yassin-Kassab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745337848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745337845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d","brand":"Robin Yassin-Kassab","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120136909055,"sku":"9780745337845","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0850fc35-4da3-48e7-b97b-b713da0d5c5d.jpg?v=1687412742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/burning-country-new-edition-robin-yassin-kassab-9780745337845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}