My Road From Damascus

by Jamal Saeed
My Road From Damascus
  • ISBN-13: 9781778520037
  • Author(s): Jamal Saeed
  • Subject: Memoirs
  • Publisher: Ecw Press
  • Imprint: Ecw Press Digital
  • Publication Date: 06-10-2022
  • Format: Electronic book text

Availability: In stock

£9.99
Humorous, witty, horrific, and poetic, Jamal Saeed's story is Syria's story: surviving 12 years in brutal military prisons, an enchanted childhood, his loves, Syria's deadly upheavals, and his family's escape. An extraordinary account of survival in Syria's most notorious military prisons that is written with 'brutal clarity - and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.' - Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones. Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers.
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Humorous, witty, horrific, and poetic, Jamal Saeed's story is Syria's story: surviving 12 years in brutal military prisons, an enchanted childhood, his loves, Syria's deadly upheavals, and his family's escape. An extraordinary account of survival in Syria's most notorious military prisons that is written with 'brutal clarity - and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.' - Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones. Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers.

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