{"product_id":"critical-conditions-hadi-abdullah-9781954600959","title":"Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA frontline eyewitness account of the Syrian Revolution from prizewinning journalist and activist Hadi Abdullah, who broke the story of Assad's alliance with Hezbollah, a fact that changed the course and severity of the war. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is Hadi al-Abdullah. A few years ago, he was studying to be a nurse. But when war broke out in Syria, he took a different path. He chose to join antigovernment protests and tell the world the story of an uprising that became a civil war. Years of conflict turned him from an eyewitness into a frontline war reporter. This new role of his brought added risk, for himself, and for his friends and colleagues. Sometimes they would go towards the bombs, sometimes the bombs would come towards them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e documentary \"Dying to Be Heard: Reporting Syria's War\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdullah became a trusted voice on social media, where he joined the ranks of cyber-dissenters and reported from the field. His memoir tracks his experience as a first responder during the Arab Spring uprisings, through the liberation of Syria in December 2024, by which time as a war reporter he had lost many of his closest friends, two of whom were his cameramen. After the brutal siege of Homs, Abdullah fled north to Idlib Province among the rebel factions, which posed their own dangers to young reporters. Astonishing for its rendering of friendships forged during the emotional impacts of war, and using creative language and style, \u003ci\u003eCritical Conditions\u003c\/i\u003e explores not only the political concerns of the author and his closest friends who all risked capture, prison, torture, or death every day, but gives centrality to their feelings during the life-changing mission they undertook by challenging the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritically injured in an assassination attempt in Aleppo in 2016, Abdullah spent months in recovery in Turkey, where he was interviewed for a multimedia feature on \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand by Scott Pelley for \u003ci\u003e60 Minutes.\u003c\/i\u003e Later that year, he won the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize. Abdullah's new Afterword gives breathtaking detail to the Liberation of Syria the first week of December 2024 and remarks on the challenges for Syrians that lie ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hadi Abdullah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 195460095X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954600959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doppelhouse Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Hadi Abdullah","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881157808383,"sku":"9781954600959","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d01c6a29-d73c-459d-b011-84fa943116ec.jpg?v=1747970850","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-conditions-hadi-abdullah-9781954600959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}