A shocking look into the brutal nature of sectarian intolerance and state violence,
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This review is from: Levant Fever: True stories from Syria's underground (Kindle Edition)
This is a real life account of personal tragedy and eventual triumph which takes the reader into the darkest dungeons of man's inhumanity to man. It is a shocking account of a life caught in the tremendously callous and wasteful cycle of incarceration for what amounts to thought crime, resulting in years of isolation, terror, torture, humiliation , and loss.
Trapped in a ruthless, Kafkaesque netherworld, the author navigates his own political and philosophical positions in the face of brute, unthinking force. Reduced to a number, he nonetheless maintains his self ownership within his own mind and his own recollections of a comparatively idyllic youth as his life is stolen from him day by day, year to year.
Throughout his ordeals, he never loses touch with his empathy as reavealed by his relationships with others who suffer alongside him. He shares their stories along with his own, demonstrating a solidarity with and love for his fellow man, which I believe is the trait which was the determinate factor in his mental, emotional, and physical survival.
It's a profoundly moving and revealing testimony to universality of the good and evil aspects of human nature.
Trapped in a ruthless, Kafkaesque netherworld, the author navigates his own political and philosophical positions in the face of brute, unthinking force. Reduced to a number, he nonetheless maintains his self ownership within his own mind and his own recollections of a comparatively idyllic youth as his life is stolen from him day by day, year to year.
Throughout his ordeals, he never loses touch with his empathy as reavealed by his relationships with others who suffer alongside him. He shares their stories along with his own, demonstrating a solidarity with and love for his fellow man, which I believe is the trait which was the determinate factor in his mental, emotional, and physical survival.
It's a profoundly moving and revealing testimony to universality of the good and evil aspects of human nature.
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