“This powerful memoir, illuminated with molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict.” Bryan Stevenson, author of just mercy in 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq joined the first protests of the Arab spring in Syria, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched, poured coca-cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas, ran from the security forces and cursed the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed, at last, imminent. Five years later, the three young friends were scattered: One now an islamist revolutionary, another dead at the hands of government soldiers and the last, Marwan, now a journalist in Turkish exile, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. Marwan was there to witness and document first-hand the Syrian war, from its inception to the present. He watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers, as revolutionary activist groups, for a few dreamy days, spray-painted hope on Raqqa, as his friends died or threw in their lot with islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under Siege by Isis, the Russians and the Americans all at once. He saw the country that ran through his veins the country that held his hopes, dreams and fears be destroyed in front of him and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape.
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