German rights to Cinnamon were acquired by Hanser, Nagel & Kimche.

Dutch rights to In the crossfire were sold to Nigh & Van Ditmar, Netherlands.

Norwegian rights to Cinnamon, by Samar Yazbek, were sold to Cappelen Damm.

The Swedish translation rights of Samar Yazbek’s novel Cinnamon was sold to Ordfront.

In both the book and in life, Ms. Yazbek, a novelist, oscillates between embracing the Alawite label and rejecting it, loath to paint the uprising in sectarian colors. It is a common sentiment among the limited number of Alawites who have publicly joined the revolution.

“I had never cared whether I was an Alawite or not,” she said, speaking in Arabic over coffee in a Midtown Manhattan hotel. “It was like someone saying you had blue eyes.”

SvD interviews Samar Yazbek
Published on November 19th, 2012

Photo credit: Dan Hansson
As soon as the Syrian uprising erupted against the Assad regime in March 2011, Samar Yazbek travel around the country to describe the regime’s brutality and listen to people who have suffered sieges, bombing and shelling during the mass demonstrations against the dictatorship that ruled for 40 years. She, who previously made a name for herself for having violated social taboos in her novels, now became an active witness to the Syrians rebelled against the Assad regime.
Samar Yazbek is alawit …