Samar Yazbek, writer: 'Syrian Alawites face a massive collective punishment'
OP-ED. As Syria opens a trial for the massacres carried out in March against the Alawite community, Syrian journalist and novelist Samar...
Review: Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek | Hindustan Times
A masterclass in sustaining mystery, this novel by one of the most important Syrian writers of our time focuses on the power of the...
Samar Yazbek: ‘Syria has been hung, drawn and quartered’
Samar Yazbek has written a powerful and moving account of her devastated homeland. Here, she tells how she risked her life to cross illegally back into Syria.
When a Syrian author becomes the voice of Gaza's survivors
COLUMN. 'A Memory of Annihilation,' the latest book by Samar Yazbek, brings together a striking series of testimonies from survivors of the...
Fitzcarraldo acquires ‘vital’ oral testimonies of Gazan survivors
Fitzcarraldo Editions is set to publish Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza, a work of oral history collating the...
‘Syria Is Like a Planet in My Head’: Novelist Samar Yazbek on Writing in Exile
Soon after Syria's uprising began, Samar Yazbek knew where she stood: with her fellow citizens braving bullets to protest Bashar al-Assad's...
Syrian writer for Le Monde: Alawites in Syria expose to collective punishment
In an article published in the French newspaper Le Monde, Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek asserted that "Alawites in Syria are...
Branded a Betrayer for Embracing Syria’s Rebels (Published 2012)
Ms. Yazbek, a novelist, oscillates between embracing the Alawite label and rejecting it, loath to paint the uprising in sectarian colors.
ICIP Peace in Progress Award Ceremony to Honor Syrian Organization Women Now for Development
The ceremony, open to the public, will take place on Thursday, September 18, at 6:00 p.m. at the Parliament of Catalonia.
Samar Yazbek: Violence Begets Violence in Syria
Ms. Yazbek explained, “There have been incidents of violence in the revolution because violence begets violence, and violence begets its own...
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Syrian writer, journalist and outspoken critic of the Syrian government; author and advocate for women’s rights and survivors of conflict; has written extensively on women’s experiences during the war.