Syrians Hit by Yet Another Chemical Weapons Attack

Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad continues to use chemical weapons in his country's seven-year civil war ("Burning Eyes, Foaming Mouths: Years of Suspected Chemical Attacks in Syria," The New York Times, April 8, 2018). The latest attack this month in a Douma suburb, almost fifty died and over 500 experienced symptoms attributed to a "suspected chemical attack."

Review selected hard copy/online library books related to Syria or chemical weapons at LSC-CyFair Branch Library. Click the title of a listed item, select the "Place Hold" button in the listing, and enter your library card number and PIN for each title you want to request for pick up at the library.

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• Syria atrocities
• Syria civil war 2011
• Syria human rights

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid

Norton, 2018
call number: 956.91 Abo

"Extending back to the first demonstrations of 2011, No Turning Back dissects the tangle of ideologies and allegiances that make up the Syrian conflict . . . Rania Abouzeid brings readers deep inside Assad's prisons, to covert meetings where foreign states and organizations manipulated the rebels, and to the highest levels of Islamic militancy and the formation of ISIS." - publisher's summary excerpt

City of Ghosts produced and directed by Matthew Heineman

Broad Green, 2017
call number: 323.156 Cit (DVD Collection)

"A documentary that follows the efforts of "Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently," a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today." - publisher's summary excerpt

We Are Syrians: Three Generations, Three Dissidents edited by Adam Braver and Abby DeVeuve

University of New Orleans Press, 2017
call number: 956.91 Wea

"Three generations of Syrian citizens who became dissidents under the Assad family's rule, forced to flee Syria by a government that wanted to silence them. In We Are Syrians First, Naila Al-Atrash, Radwan Ziadeh, and Sana Mustafa tell how they confronted each of those questions in their commitment to protect freedom of expression under an authoritarian government. While these are individual stories of courage and defiance, together they tell the larger story of the Syrian conflict and the conditions that brought about the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history." - publisher's summary excerpt