Syrian Dust: Reporting from the Heart of the Battle for Aleppo

✍ Scribed by Borri, Francesca

• Book ID: 108901901
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 423 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781609806613

✦ Synopsis

August 21, 2003: a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, and more than half of a population of 22 million people dispersed or refugeed in nearby countries: the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII according to the UN.

Francesca Borri is one of them. But she does not leave. She is thirty years old. For months she covers the battle of Aleppo as a freelance reporter. And she quickly realizes that to report a war is to hide with dozens of women and children, even a baby, born there, in a grave, 'a piece of soil under the ground that is as expensive as three houses' or to scavenge for anything to burn for some warmth, 'a broken slipper, the plastic hand of a toy' or to mistake bloody figments of skull for rubble. To report a war is also...