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Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present

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Description for Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present Hardback. A poignant, affectionate history of the peoples of Syria, their fragile coexistence and how sectarianism is unravelling a once proud country. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. Among the Ruins blends history, memoir and reportage, drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of Syria in ancient, medieval, and modern times, as well as his experiences living in the Levant on the eve of the war and in the midst of the 'Arab Spring'. These plotlines converge in a rich narrative of a country in constant flux -- a place renewed by the very shifts that, in the near term, are ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849044004
SKU
V9781849044004
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About Christian C. Sahner
Christian C. Sahner is an historian of the Middle East. He graduated from Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on the role of non-Muslims in Islamic societies. Sahner's writing has been published in The Times Literary Supplement and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. ... Read more

Reviews for Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present
In his beautiful patchwork of recent experience and academic history, [Sahner] gives a truly original portrait of contemporary Syria without shirking the social problems, physical ugliness or political realities many Westerners often want to deny ... Sahner gives a long historical arc, going back to pre-Islamic, Byzantine Syria, before going on to produce a moving and highly readable account of ... Read more

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