7/7/2023 0 Comments The crossing by samar yazbekShe talks about the inability of a child to run, with her already shrapnel-blown arms and legs when planes start to drop barrel bombs. That is why, starting from 2012, she sneaked back into her country multiple times to document sometimes even the front line. Unless documented, she says, the truth will be forgotten because of the chaotic environment and manipulations of the media under the pressure of the intelligence service. Yet, she believes writing is essential in this turmoil. She was arrested for five times, beaten and forced to watch young activists hanging upside down in the dungeons of the regime. Her critical writings and activism against the autocracy of the Assad regime forced her into exile. “Before our homeland became a magnet attracting radical Islamists and paid soldiers, we had an honorable revolution,” says Yazbek, referring to the beginning of the protests she participated in as an activist. From the 2011 protests demanding human rights to the formation of local militias by common people, “The Crossing” accounts for the gradual metamorphosis of the rebellion into a fragmented opposition dominated by extremists. In her book, the PEN award winning journalist gives an account of what she has witnessed. Samar Yazbek documents the real people, living (or more accurately dying) under the current aerial bombardment. It is a testimony of a Syrian journalist on the people left behind in Syria. “The Crossing” is neither fiction nor a memoir. Fragments of so-called life in Syria SILAY SILDIR – Ankara
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