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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Eid, Kassem, author.     Subjects     Eid, Kassem.     Palestinian Arabs -- Syria -- Biography.     Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-     Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Atrocities.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Eid, Kassem, author.       by title:      My country : a Syria...         MARC Display

My country : a Syrian memoir / Kassem Eid. by Eid, Kassem, author. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. Subjects Eid, Kassem.   Palestinian Arabs -- Syria -- Biography.   Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011-   Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Atrocities. ISBN:  9781635572841 (hardcover): Description:  x, 194 pages : maps ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  Kassem Eid survived arrest in al-Assad's regime, a chemical weapons attack that shocked the world, and the siege of a city where he fought with the Syrian rebel army. This is his story--a unique and powerfully moving testimony for our times, with a foreword by Janine di Giovanni. On August 21, 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people were killed. Later that day, he was hit by a mortar while helping the Free Syrian Army fight government forces. He survived that, too. But his entire world--friends, neighbors, family, everything he knew--had been devastated beyond repair. Eid recalls moving to Moadamiya in 1989, at the age of three. The streets where he and his eleven siblings played were fragrant with jasmine. But he soon realized that he was treated differently at school because of his family's Palestinian immigrant origins, and their resistance to the brutal regime. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that he would ease the state's severity were swiftly crushed. The unprecedented scope of this brave, deeply felt memoir makes it unique in the body of literature to emerge from the Syrian civil war. Eid illuminates the realities of growing up in a corrupt dictatorship; the strictures of living under siege; the impact of unspeakable violence; and how, at extraordinary personal risk, he drew worldwide attention to the assault on cities across Syria. This is a searing account of oppression, war, grit, and escape, and a heartbreaking love letter to a world lost forever.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 956.91042 Eid Ei   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Biography B Eid Ei 2018 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 956.91042 Ei   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 956.91042 Ei   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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