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A widely recognized expert on the unfolding crisis in Syria here melds reportage, analysis, and history in an accessible overview of events leading up to the toppling of the Assad regime and the fragile prospects for peace in its wake.How did the Syrian regime fall? Gradually, then all at once.
In December 2024, the long and bloody stalemate in Syria broke down. In a transformation breathtaking for its suddenness and speed, President Bashar al-Assad, the beating heart of Arab authoritarianism, fled to Russia, his dungeons emptying as rebels overcame the Syrian army with scarcely a fight.
Euphoria at the collapse of a government people never voted for was tempered by fear for the future. The victorious insurgents were supported by outside powers and had a track record of brutality comparable to Assad’s in addition to religious fanaticism. Syrians—whose fragile, cosmopolitan mosaic has been repeatedly shattered by foreign-backed sectarians—faced rule by an avowedly Islamist regime that pledged to break with its past and show tolerance to all religious communities.
In this illuminating and concise survey, Charles Glass shows how Assad’s misrule, Sunni fundamentalism, and Western deceit combined to create and prolong the Syrian disaster, which since 2011 has claimed more than two hundred thousand lives and driven more than eight million people from their homes.
Glass has reported extensively from the Middle East and travelled frequently in Syria for more than fifty years. Here he melds reportage, analysis, and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict, situating it clearly in the broader crises of the region.
In this new and thoroughly revised edition of his earlier
Syria Burning, Glass brings the story to the present, showing how we got here and what a post-Assad settlement might bring.
A propos de l'auteur
Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. Since 1973, he has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of
Syria Burning,
Tribes with Flags,
The Tribes Triumphant,
Money for Old Rope,
The Northern Front,
Americans in Paris,
The Deserters,
They Fought Alone, and
Soldiers Don't Go Mad: A Story of Brotherhood, Poetry, and Mental Illness During the First World War.
Résumé
In this extensively updated edition of a book that was widely praised on its first publication nearly a decade ago, the acclaimed foreign correspondent and author Charles Glass, brings the the story of Syria up to date.
Préface
Leverage the author’s connections in the media to pitch reviews, interviews, and op-eds across a wide range of mainstream and left-media. As this book follows on from the successful 2015 book Syria Burning, we will capitalise on previous media coverage and existing interest in this topic. The author has previously appeared on BBC Newshour, BBC Today, RT, Democracy Now!, VICE, The Takeaway with John Hockenberry, and has written for the New York Review of Books, the Evening Standard, The Monocle, and more. Syria Burning was reviewed by The Observer, History News Network, Monterey Herald, Warscapes, and more, and we will pitch to these outlets again.
- Pitch op-eds, reviews, and excerpts to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Washington Post, The Intercept, Bookforum, Middle East Eye, Tribune, Morning Star, Monthly Review, Red Pepper, Declassified UK, The Canary, Novara Media, OpenDemocracy, Double Down News, and more. Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews with Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera’s UpFront, The Mehdi Hasan Show, BBC News, Intercepted, The Dig, Breaking Points, Rising, Useful Idiots, Bad Faith, Citations Needed, On the Media, Novara Media, A World to Win, and more.
A launch event with guest speakers in New York will garner further media attention.
