My country : a Syrian memoir
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Phelps Library - Adult Nonfiction
956.9 Eid
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956.9 Eid
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x, 194 pages : maps ; 22 cm
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Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people were killed. Later that day, he was hit by a mortar while helping the Free Syrian Army fight government forces. He survived that, too. But his entire world--friends, neighbors, family, everything he knew--had been devastated beyond repair. Eid recalls moving to Moadamiya in 1989, at the age of three. The streets where he and his eleven siblings played were fragrant with jasmine. But he soon realized that he was treated differently at school because of his family's Palestinian immigrant origins, and their resistance to the brutal regime. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that he would ease the state's severity were swiftly crushed. The unprecedented scope of this brave, deeply felt memoir makes it unique in the body of literature to emerge from the Syrian civil war. Eid illuminates the realities of growing up in a corrupt dictatorship; the strictures of living under siege; the impact of unspeakable violence; and how, at extraordinary personal risk, he drew worldwide attention to the assault on cities across Syria. This is a searing account of oppression, war, grit, and escape, and a heartbreaking love letter to a world lost forever.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Eid, K. (2018). My country: a Syrian memoir . Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Eid, Kassem. 2018. My Country: A Syrian Memoir. Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Eid, Kassem. My Country: A Syrian Memoir Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Eid, Kassem. My Country: A Syrian Memoir Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
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