Tracing History and Loss in Syria: A Review of Alia Malek’s The Home That Was Our Country

Syrian-American journalist, Alia Malek, recounts Syria’s historical and political progression from the early twentieth century to the 2011 uprising through the experience of her own family.

by Mariam Elba

I’m sure of one thing: history will not spare anyone, it will be written and the truth will come out sooner rather than later.

A well-respected doctor, with connections to the Syrian state, made this statement in 1982 in the midst of Hafez Al Assad’s brutal massacre in the city of Hama, which killed about 10,000 people in the span of a mont…