Tuesday 1st March 2016
19:00 at
Waterstones, London - Piccadilly
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Burning Country explores the horrific and complicated reality of life in present-day Syria with unprecedented detail and sophistication.
With chapters focusing on ISIS and Islamism, regional geopolitics, the new grassroots revolutionary organisations, and the worst refugee crisis since World War Two, Burning Country is a vivid and groundbreaking look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare.
Robin Yassin-Kassab is a regular media commentator on Syria and the Middle East , writing for the Guardian, al-Jazeera, the Daily Beast and the National amongst others and has appeared on Channel 4 News, Newsnight, BBC World Service and al-Jazeera . He is the author of the novel The Road From Damascus and contributor to Syria Speaks (Saqi, 2014).
Robin will be in conversation with Wassim al-Adel, author of the Maysaloon blog.
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