As Trump threatens to turn the army on peaceful demonstrators, Syrian activist and author Leila Al-Shami writes what Americans might learn from Syria’s nine-plus years of revolutionary struggle.

Now in its tenth year, Syria’s war has seen an entire generation of reporters come and go, exposing its crimes in minute detail to a world that only ever grows more indifferent.

An essential new book by the only international journalist to have lived full-time in Damascus post-2011 shows the Assad regime’s criminality to be even worse than previously understood.