Description:
What would you do to protect your freedom? Would you risk your reputation? Undergo interrogation, detainment, and abuse? Would you continue even when your friends and colleagues started going missing? Continue despite the threats? Would you leave everything behind, leave the only home you've ever known, before silencing yourself?
In We Are Syrians, Naila Al-Atrash, Radwan Ziadeh, and Sana Mustafa share their harrowing accounts about working to protect freedom of expression under an authoritarian government. While these are individual stories of courage and defiance, together they tell the larger story of the Syrian conflict and the conditions that brought about the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history.
Brief description: ADAM BRAVER is the author of five novels, most recently Misfit. His books have been translated into several languages worldwide. Braver's short works and essays have appeared in numerous magazines. He is writer-in-residence at Roger Williams University, and also teaches at the NY State Summer Writers Institute.
Review Quotes: As if coincidentally, these three stories fit together to provide a full, chronological account of the repressive Assad reign and citizens' efforts to advance democracy...This compelling, clear-eyed book should help ordinary Americans to empathize with the plight of Syrians today. -- Foreword Review "Foreword Review"