_______________-Powerful - A humbling and important first-hand account of a brutal civil war in which as many as 500,000 people have died- - Guardian-A memoir of resistance and survival unique in the annals of modern war - If the shedding of blood can be beautiful in words, he makes it so- - Wall Street Journal''A valuable perspective absent from much of what has already been written on Syria ... An epic view of what Syria was and has become'' - Arab Weekly_______________Born to Palestinian refugees, Kassem Eid grew up in the small town of Moadamiya on the outskirts of the ancient city of Damascus, playing in streets perfumed with jasmine. But it didn-t take long for Kassem to realise that he was treated differently at school because of his family-s resistance to the brutal government regime. When Bashar al-Assad succeeded his father in 2000, hopes that things might change for the better were swiftly crushed. When the 2011 Arab Sp
