Syrians in the Shadow of War

Gripping accounts of how ordinary Syrians strove to survive the hardships that preceded the Assad regime’s collapse Activists striving in the shadow of Syria’s police state; widows launching small businesses to feed their families; farmers tending fields battered by destruction, pollution, and drought: their voices are as central to Syria’s conflict as they are absent from most discussions of it. Drawing on more than three thousand interviews between 2017 and 2024, Syrians in the Shadow of War e