"This first book in English by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution, describes with precision and fervor the events that led to the Syrian uprising of 2011--the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a regional war and the "three monsters" Saleh sees "treading on Syria's corpse": the Assad regime and its allies, ISIS and other jihadists, and the West. Where conventional wisdom has it that Assad's army is now battling against religious fanatics for control of the country, Saleh argues that the emancipatory, democratic mass movement that ignited the…
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Editions
3 editions · 2 languages
Paperback · English · 2017
Hurst & Co. · 312 pages · 9781849048668
Other · English · 2017
Impossible Revolution
Haymarket Books · 9781608468751
Paperback · Spanish · 2018
Siria, la revolución imposible
Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo · 416 pages · 9788494656491
Political violenceProtest movementsHistorySyria, historySyria, politics and governmentPolitics and governmentSyria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-
