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These are texts by Syrian revolutionaries, activists, intellectuals, anarchists, as well as interviews with such. Initially compiled in 2022, it has been updated and comes with renewed relevance due to the collapse of Assad regime at the end of 2024.
120 pages, where the next chapter is still unwritten.
This reader is a compilation of 22 texts about the Syrian revolution. There is a common focus of the Western left, to which the editors count themselves, on North & Eastern Syria, the liberated area also called Rojava. Other parts of the struggle in this region have been widely sidelined. This has been criticised by many of the authors in this reader. Thus, it is an attempt to spread the views, ideas and efforts of revolutionary people in West and South Syria.
Except chapter 20, written by the editors of the reader, the other texts have been published on websites, online archives and magazines before. The authors and interviewees have different approaches, views, and backgrounds. Readers are explicitly welcome to keep adding to and changing this compilation and spread it.
Published in memory of Omar Aziz, who lost his life in Sednaya Prison twelve years ago, and as part of global gatherings to remember him on 16 February, all profits from the sale of this item will go to the Sednaya Prison Association, which provides aid to the families of those detained and disappeared in Syria’s most notorious prison.
To learn more about him you can read this article about his life and impact on the Syrian revolution. It was published in 2013 by Leila al Shami, author of the chapter 2, 14 and 19 of this reader, as well as co-author of the book “Burning country”.
To learn more about Sendaya Prison and the association:
https://www.admsp.org
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