Impossible Revolution

Saleh urges us to oppose intervention of imperialist powers in Syria, and reject the tyranny of the Assad regime.

List of contents

1. Revolution of the Common People: Ethical, Cultural, and Political Issues within
the Syrian Uprising
2. The Syrian Shabiha and their State
3. The Syrian Revolution and the Danger of a "State of Nature"
4. Arms and the Revolution: Outlines of a Story
5. The Social and Cultural Roots of Syrian Fascism
6. The Rise of Militant Nihilism in Syria
7. Assad or No One/Assad or We Burn the Country: The Regime of Political Nihilism
8. An Image, Two Flags, and a Banner: A Socio-Symbolic Approach to the Interaction and Conflict of Four Syrias
9. On the Paths and Destinies of the Syrian Revolution at the Threshold of Two and a Half Years
10. The Neo-Sultanic State: Political and Social Sources of Sectarianism in Syria

About the author

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is widely regarded as Syria's foremost thinker and the intellectual guru of the Syrian uprising. Born in Raqqa, he spent sixteen years as a political prisoner in Syria (1980-1996) and has been living in exile in Turkey since 2013, still struggling for Syria and Samira, his abducted wife. Along with a group of Syrian and Turkish intellectuals and activists, he established the Syrian Cultural House in Istanbul called Hamish (?margin' or ?fringe'), which has become a major hub of activity and helped change the debate about Syria within Turkey. He has written and edited five books in Arabic, but this is his first in English.

Product details

• Authors: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, Yassin al-Haj Saleh
• Publisher: US Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781608468508
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-850-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 215 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, War Crimes, Regional / International studies, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing