TY - BOOK ID - 78108818 TI - Revolt in Syria PY - 2012 SN - 1849044414 1849044406 9781849044400 9781849044417 9781849041973 1849041970 PB - London Hurst & Company DB - UniCat KW - Journalists -- Syria -- Biography. KW - Political violence -- Syria -- History -- 21st century. KW - Protest movements -- Syria -- History -- 21st century. KW - Starr, Stephen -- Travel -- Syria. KW - Syria -- Politics and government -- 2000-. KW - Syria -- Social conditions -- 21st century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78108818 AB - In January 2011 President Bashar al-Assad told the Wall Street Journal that Syria was ""stable"" and immune from revolt. In the months that followed, and as regimes fell in Egypt and Tunisia, thousands of Syrians took to the streets calling for freedom, with many dying at the hands of the regime. In Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising, Stephen Starr delves deep into the lives of Syrians whose destiny has been shaped by the state for almost fifty years. In conversations with people from all strata of Syrian society, Starr draws together and makes sense of perspectives illustrating why ER -