The Home That Was Our Country A Memoir of Syria 1st Edition by Alia Malek ISBN 1568585322 978-1568585321

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ISBN 10: 1568585322 

ISBN 13: 978-1568585321

Author: Alia Malek

 At the Arab Spring’s hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds-who worked, loved, and suffered in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family’s home as the country comes apart, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria’s future.

The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history, society, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.

Table of contents: 

PART 1 Generations

1. Origins

2. Sheikha

3. Adrift

4. Pack Your Bags and Go

5. Locked In

PART 2 Locked Out

6. Anywhere but Here

7. No-Man’s-Land

8. They Did It to Themselves

PART 3 In the Eye of the Belly

9. Return

10. Tahrir Squares

11. Psychodrame

12. Fatherland

13. In the Cards

14. Routine

15. Suspicion

16. Unraveling

17. Power

18. Displaced

19. Gone

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