Brothers of the gun : a memoir of the Syrian War /

A bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century's bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship, home and freedom. In 2011, Marwan Hisham and his two friends, fellow working-class college students...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hisham, Marwan (Author)
Other Authors:	Crabapple, Molly (Illustrator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : One World, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Hisham, Marwan. Damascus (Syria) > Biography. Damascus (Syria) > History. Syria > History > Civil War, 2011- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs. HISTORY > Middle East. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.

Table of Contents:

Coke does the trick
Religious exile
Welcome, spring
My revolution
Romance of the streets
The masterpiece
Winter is coming
Dynamics of powder and bullets
New dawn
Jasmine
Tareq, it was never an easy life
Oh brothers
The de-facto capital
Jihadis don't tip
Abu Mujahid's prosthetic dick
Of bright dresses
iPhone snapshots and bombs
Al-Nuri Mosque
Why, uncle?
The merciless jungle I missed
The Aleppo of yesterday
The days that would never have been
I am a murtad
Getting the fuck out of Raqqa
Hevalen
al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar
A Russian feast
Journalist and stuff
Epilogue: Goodbye.