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The Syrian Revolution is often remembered as a struggle between dictatorship and freedom, between

Assad's totalitarian state and the liberal hopes of the Arab Spring.

But the truth is more complicated.

Anand Gopal is an award-winning journalist and the author of Days of Love and Rage,

a remarkable account of the Syrian Revolution told through the lives of those who lived it.

The book demonstrates that in places like the northern Syrian town of Menbidge, the ideals

of freedom and rights proved too thin

to withstand the demands of real political life, bread, order, justice, belonging, especially

when pitted against ISIS's brand of populist, conservative, religious politics.

What began as a democratic uprising became, in one city, a test of whether liberalism could

survive war, inequality, and social fracture.

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