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100 1  Malek, Alia,|d1974-|eauthor. 
245 14 The home that was our country :|ba memoir of Syria /|cAlia
       Malek. 
264  1 New York :|bNation Books,|c[2017] 
300    xvi, 334 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-334) 
505 0  Prologue : leaving -- Generations -- Origins -- Sheika -- 
       Adrift -- Pack your bags and go -- Locked in -- Locked out
       -- Anywhere but here -- No man's land -- They did it to 
       themselves -- In the eye of the belly -- Return -- Tahrir 
       squares -- Psychodrame -- Fatherland -- In the cards -- 
       Routine -- Suspicion -- Unraveling -- Power -- Displaced -
       - Gone -- Epilogue: bound. 
520    The author discusses the political situation in Syria by 
       returning to her family home in Damascus and telling the 
       history of her own family. 
520    In The Home that Was My Country, Syrian-American 
       journalist Alia Malek chronicles her return to her family 
       home in Damascus and the history of the Jabban apartment 
       building. Here, generations of Christians, Jews, Muslims, 
       and Armenians lived, worked, loved, and suffered in close 
       quarters. In telling the story of her family over the 
       course of the last century, Alia brings to light the 
       triumphs and failures that have led Syria to where it is 
       today. Her book bristles with insights, as Alia weaves 
       acute political analysis into intimate scenes, interlacing
       the personal and the political with subtlety and grace. 
       After being in and out of Syria growing up, Alia came back
       to Syria as a journalist at the time of the Arab Spring, 
       striving to understand it as the country was beginning to 
       disintegrate. As days go on, Alia learns how to speak the 
       language that exists in a dictatorship, while privately 
       confronting her own fears about her country's future, and 
       learns how to carry on with everyday life. This intimate 
       portrait of contemporary Syria will shed more light on its
       history, society, and politics than all of today's war 
       reporting accounts written from the Syrian front. It makes
       for an eye-opening, highly moving, and beautiful read, and
       finds the humanity behind the disastrous daily headlines. 
600 10 Malek, Alia,|d1974-|xFamily. 
651  0 Damascus (Syria)|vBiography. 
651  0 Damascus (Syria)|xHistory. 
651  0 Syria|xHistory. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMalek, Alia, 1974- author.|tHome that 
       was our country|dNew York, NY : Nation Books, an imprint 
       of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group,
       Inc., 2017|z9781568585338|w(DLC) 2016050029 
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