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The Crossing
  • Published: 27 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846044885
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
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The Crossing

My journey to the shattered heart of Syria

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2 July 2015
Paperback
27 June 2016
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Powerful insight into the effects of civil war on the Syrian people and why so many are desperate to flee, by award-winning Syrian journalist.

'ONE OF THE FIRST POLITICAL CLASSICS OF THE 21st CENTURY'- Observer

'EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL, POIGNANT AND AFFECTING. I WAS GREATLY MOVED' Michael Palin

FOREWORD BY CHRISTINA LAMB

Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad's regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to what she found inside the borders of her homeland.

From the first peaceful protests for democracy to the arrival of ISIS, she bears witness to those struggling to survive, to the humanity that can flower amidst annihilation, and why so many are now desperate to flee.
  • Published: 27 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9781846044885
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Samar Yazbek

Born in 1970, Samar Yazbek studied literature before beginning her career as a journalist and a scriptwriter for Syrian television and cinema. Her translated work includes the novel, Cinnamon, and A Woman In The Crossfire, her diaries of the first four months of the Syrian uprising, which has won many prizes. She lives in Paris.

portrait photo of Samar Yazbek

Praise for The Crossing

I much admire Samar for her literary skill, and her bravery

Carol Ann Duffy

Perhaps the finest single account of Syria's revolution

New Internationalist