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Defiance: A Memoir Of Awakening, Rebellion, And Survival In Syria
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Defiance Takes My Breath Away. A NailBiting Tale Of Astonishing Courage. Jeannette Walls #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Glass CastleA Heartbreaking Account Of A Young WomanS Struggle For Freedom Against The Rampaging Forces Of Fanaticism And Tyranny . . . Unforgettable. Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer PrizeWinning Author Of The Looming Tower And The Human Scalea Stunning Memoir Of Personal Rebellion And Political Awakening From A Young Woman Raised To Be Loyal To A Brutal RegimeAnd The Unimaginable Cost Of Choosing Freedomlike Any Good Alawite Girl, Every Day At School, Loubna Mrie Pledged Allegiance To Hafez AlAssad. When She Complained About Memorizing His Speeches For Class, She Was Told To Shorten Her TongueWithout The President, Her Family Believed, The Alawites Would Be Persecuted By The Sunni Majority, As They Had Been For Centuries Before The Assads Came To Power. A GirlS Role Was To Obey, Not To Question. LoubnaS Father, A Mercurial Businessman With Close Ties To The Assad Regime, Ruled Over His Wife And Daughters With Absolute Authority. In Their World, Loyalty Was SurVival. Curiosity Was Blasphemy. Dissent Was Betrayal.But Everything Changed In 2011, When The ProDemocracy Uprisings Of The Arab Spring Reached Syria. Unable To Suppress Her Curiosity, Loubna Attended An AntiGovernment Protest. What She WitnessedThe Courage, The Brutality, And The Lies That FollowedIgnited Something In Her That Would Not Be Extinguished. She Joined The Resistance, Risking Her Life By Fearlessly Proclaiming Her Alawite Heritage And, Later, As A Photojournalist Documenting The War For Reuters And Other Outlets. Her Defiance Would Come At A Devastating Cost: The Loss Of Loved Ones, Her Community, And Ultimately Her Country. Leaving Behind Everything She Knew, She Would Have To Find A New Home Within Herself.Defiance Is The Unforgettable Account Of One WomanS Fight For FreedomAgainst A Father, A Dictator, And The Weight Of Inherited Belief. From The Streets Of Aleppo To Exile In New York City, It Offers An Electrifying Portrait Of Moral Courage In The Face Of Authoritarianism And Violence. Told With Clarity, Fury, And Grace, Defiance Offers A Rare GroundLevel Portrait Of What It Means To Wake Up, To Resist, And To Become.
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