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The Best Human Rights Books of 2017

The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, translated by Ibtihal Mahmood (Hurst / Haymarket)

One of the few books about Syria to appear in English written by a Syrian who directly experienced the revolution and war, and much else before that.

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https://medium.com/@KongTsungGan/the-...

Book Review: The Impossible Revolution by Yassin al Haj Saleh

Saleh’s book stands apart in providing readers with an analysis of Syria that helps to clarify some of the paradoxes other writers have ignored. Through lucid writing, Saleh lays out the structure of authoritarianism in Syria and how it has affected Syrian society. The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

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https://muftah.org/book-review-the-im...

Bloomberg's Must-Reads of 2017

Yassin al-Haj Saleh, "The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy." A leading Syrian intellectual gives a subjective but insightful account of how totalitarianism has destroyed civil society and wrecked Syria.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articl...

War of All Against All - The New York Review of Books

by Lindsey Hilsum

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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/...

Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy

Reviewed by: James Denselow

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http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-...

Review: ‘The Impossible Revolution’ in Syria

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https://rs21.org.uk/2017/10/03/review...

Extracts from The Impossible Revolution by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

by Dick Gregory

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http://notris.blogspot.com/2017/09/ex...

Writer Widad Nabi: ″Integration is the search for common ground″

Translated by Ibtihal Mahmood.

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https://en.qantara.de/content/syrians...

Yassin al-Haj Saleh Contextualizes the Syrian Tragedy

The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy, by Yassin al-Haj Saleh (translated by Ibtihal Mahmood, with a foreword by Robin Yassin-Kassab) was published by Hurst Publishers on July 27.

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https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/academ...

Book Review: The hidden treasures of Jordanian literature

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https://kitaab.org/2017/05/14/book-re...