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The Syrian Revolution Nobody Covered | Days of Love and Rage
Most accounts of the Syrian war focus on what was destroyed. Days of Love and Rage asks a different question: what were ordinary Syrians trying to build before the revolution was consumed by dictatorship, war, inequality and the rise of ISIS?Anand Gopal tells that story through six people in Manbij, a city in northern Syria where government forces withdrew in 2012 and residents attempted to govern themselves for roughly eighteen months. Drawing on years of reporting and more than 2,000 interviews, Gopal reconstructs the assemblies, political arguments, friendships, class divisions and…
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