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World Affairs - January 2025 @SCCLD

The Assad regime fell in less than two weeks after ruling Syria for over 50 years. Read about Syria, its people and history.

15 items

  • The Damascus Events

    the 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    Rogan, Eugene L.
    BookNew York : Basic Books, 2024. — 956.9103 ROGAN
  • The Cave

    a Secret Underground Hospital and One Woman's Story of Survival in Syria : a Memoir

    Ballour, Amani
    BookWashington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2024] — 610.92 BALLOUR
  • The Home I Worked to Make

    Voices From the New Syrian Diaspora

    Pearlman, Wendy
    BookNew York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2024] — 956.9104 PEARLMA
  • Blindfold

    a Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment

    Padnos, Theo, 1968-
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2021. — 956.9104 PADNOS
  • Red Line

    the Unraveling of Syria and America's Race to Destroy the Most Dangerous Arsenal in the World

    Warrick, Joby
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2021] — 956.9104 WARRICK
  • The Daughters of Kobani

    a Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

    Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2021. — 956.9104 LEMMON
  • How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs

    the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic liberal-Islamic Alliance

    Thompson, Elizabeth F.,
    BookNew York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2020. — 956.9103 THOMPSO
  • The Book Collectors

    a Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War

    Minoui, Delphine
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — 956.9104 MINOUI
  • Assad or We Burn the Country

    How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria

    Dagher, Sam
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. — 956.9104 DAGHER
  • Shadow Strike

    Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power

    Katz, Yaakov, 1979-
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2019. — 327.5694 KATZ
  • The Field of Blood

    the Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East

    Morton, Nicholas Edward,
    BookNew York, NY : Basic Books, 2018. — 956.014 MORTON
  • No Turning Back

    Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

    Abouzeid, Rania
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018] — 956.9104 ABOUZEI
  • Book[Beirut, Lebanon] : United Nations ESCWA ; [Fife, Scotland] : University of St. Andrews, [2017] — 956.9104 ABUISMA