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100 1 $aMalek, Alia,$d1974-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe home that was our country :$ba memoir of Syria /$cAlia Malek.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bNation Books,$c[2017].
300 $axx, 338 p. :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 329-334).
505 0 $aPrologue : leaving -- Generations -- Origins -- Sheika -- Adrift -- Pack your bags and go -- Locked in -- Locked out -- Anywhere but here -- No man's land -- They did it to themselves -- In the eye of the belly -- Return -- Tahrir squares -- Psychodrame -- Fatherland -- In the cards -- Routine -- Suspicion -- Unraveling -- Power -- Displaced - - Gone -- Epilogue: bound.
520 $aIn The Home that Was My Country, Syrian-American journalist Alia Malek chronicles her return to her family home in Damascus and the history of the Jabban apartment building. Here, generations of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Armenians lived, worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters. In telling the story of her family over the course of the last century, Alia brings to light the triumphs and failures that have led Syria to where it is today. Her book bristles with insights, as Alia weaves acute political analysis into intimate scenes, interlacing the personal and the political with subtlety and grace. After being in and out of Syria growing up, Alia came back to Syria as a journalist at the time ofthe Arab Spring, striving to understand it as the country was beginning to disintegrate. As days go on, Alia learns how to speak the language that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about her country's future, and learns how to carry on with everyday life. This intimate portrait of contemporary Syria will shed more light on its history, society, and politics than all of today's war reporting accounts written from the Syrian front. It makes for an eye-opening, highly moving, and beautiful read, and finds the humanity behind the disastrous daily headlines.
600 10$aMalek, Alia,$d1974-$xFamily.
651 0$aDamascus (Syria)$vBiography.
651 0$aDamascus (Syria)$xHistory.
651 0$aSyria$xHistory.