Yassin Al-Haj Saleh

Impossible Revolution

Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

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Produktbeschreibung

Saleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 134mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468508
• ISBN-10: 160846850X
• Artikelnr.: 47590379

Autorenporträt

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is widely regarded as Syria's foremost thinker and the intellectual guru of the Syrian uprising. Born in Raqqa, he spent sixteen years as a political prisoner in Syria (1980-1996) and has been living in exile in Turkey since 2013, still struggling for Syria and Samira, his abducted wife. Along with a group of Syrian and Turkish intellectuals and activists, he established the Syrian Cultural House in Istanbul called Hamish ('margin' or 'fringe'), which has become a major hub of activity and helped change the debate about Syria within Turkey. He has written and edited five books in Arabic, but this is his first in English.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Revolution of the Common People: Ethical, Cultural, and Political Issues
within
the Syrian Uprising
2. The Syrian Shabiha and their State
3. The Syrian Revolution and the Danger of a "State of Nature"
4. Arms and the Revolution: Outlines of a Story
5. The Social and Cultural Roots of Syrian Fascism
6. The Rise of Militant Nihilism in Syria
7. Assad or No One/Assad or We Burn the Country: The Regime of Political
Nihilism
8. An Image, Two Flags, and a Banner: A Socio-Symbolic Approach to the
Interaction and Conflict of Four Syrias
9. On the Paths and Destinies of the Syrian Revolution at the Threshold of
Two and a Half Years
10. The Neo-Sultanic State: Political and Social Sources of Sectarianism in
Syria