Alia Malek’s often-powerful portrait of her Damascus home sheds light on the perils and pleasures of Syria’s pre-war society, but also leaves questions unresolved, writes Eric Reidy.
Seeing Beirut slide into war in 2006 transformed the late TV presenter, moving him to humanize peoples—in the Middle East and beyond—whose voices were rarely heard in the US mainstream.
Rania Abouzeid’s forthcoming book, No Turning Back: Life, Loss and Hope in Wartime Syria, succeeds in humanizing the individual participants in Syria’s agony—victims as well as villains.
