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By Christian Sahner

As a civil warfare shatters a rustic and consumes its humans, historian Christian C. Sahner bargains a poignant account of Syria, the place the earlier profoundly shapes its dreadful current. one of the Ruins blends background, memoir and reportage, drawing at the author's wide wisdom of Syria in historic, medieval, and smooth occasions, in addition to his studies dwelling within the Levant at the eve of the battle and in the course of the "Arab Spring". those plotlines converge in a wealthy narrative of a rustic in consistent flux - a spot renewed through the very shifts that, within the close to time period, are proving so destructive.

Sahner specializes in 5 topics of curiosity to someone intrigued and dismayed by means of Syria's fragmentation on the grounds that 2011: the function of Christianity in society; the coming of Islam; the increase of sectarianism and competing minorities; the emergence of the Ba'ath celebration; and the present pitiless civil war.

Among the Ruins is a brisk and illuminating learn, an available advent to a rustic with an tremendously wealthy prior and a sad current. For someone trying to comprehend Syria, this ebook can be their beginning point.

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