Book Review: “Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War”

Though arguably one-sided, British-Syrian authors Leila al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab offer a corrective to a faulty narrative and an important wake-up call for those who have forgotten Syria.

Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press, 2016)

by Kasper Van Laarhoven

Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami, two British authors of Syrian descent, add a necessary and refreshing activist voice to discussions of the Syrian war with their new book, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War published in February 2016. Their readin…