My Country: A Syrian Memoir

Author: Kassem Eid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500 people were killed. Later that day he was hit by a mortar while helping the Free Syrian Army fight government forces. He survived that too. But the devastation wrought on his friends, his neighbours and his home transformed them into something unrecognisable, horrifying. Born to Palestinian immigrants, Kassem Eid remembers...Read more