Le Monde reviews Samar Yazbek’s book, In the crossfire, that recently won the Pen award. “The chronicle of the Syrian carnage is weighing you down? Decoding the stakes of this multifaceted crisis discourages you? Read Samar Yazbek.

As Syria slides into a civil war that dares not speak its name, and to which the Kofi Annan plan is unlikely to bring an end, it is good to dive into ‘In the crossfire’, the diary kept by this Syrian novelist in the early months of the uprising, from March to July 2011, before going into exile in France.”

http://videos.www4.arte.tv/de/videos/samar_yazbek_schrei_nach_freiheit-6561098.html
(In German)

“Yazbek’s language is at times poetic, but mostly straightforward, with the factual sound of someone familiar with the various
places of Syria”

Samar Yazbek’s ‘In the crossfire’, German version, is in this week-end’s best seller’s list in Switzerland!
18th position on a list of 20 non fiction books.

http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-le-79-8-mars-8-femmes

But if the majority of Sunnis are on the streets, this does not mean that it’s about religion. Among the activists who mobilize and organize demonstrations, there also are Alawites and Christians. This is not a confessional conflict.