Carmit Valensi

A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyses the causes and course of this bitter conflict — from its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest to...

A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time. Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyses the causes and course of this bitter conflict—from its first spark in a peaceful Arab Spring protest to the tenuous...