She is the managing editor of, a website showcasing Arabic literary translation. The Crossing will undoubtedly become a classic: as both a historical document and a work of literature. Her translations include the collaborative novel Shatila Stories and a co-translation of Samar Yazbek’s memoir, The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria. Yazbek's portraits of life in Syria are very real, her prose is luminous. From the first innocent demonstrations for democracy, through the beginnings of the Free Syrian Army, to the arrival of ISIS, she offers remarkable snapshots of soldiers, children, ordinary men and women simply trying to stay alive.Some of these stories are of hardship and brutality that is hard to bear, but she also gives testimony to touches of humanity along the way: how people live under the gaze of a sniper.how principled young men try to resist orders from their military superiors.how children cope in the bunkers. In The Crossing, she testifies to the appalling reality that is Syria today. The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria von Yazbek, Samar und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf. Yazbek shares stories of unspeakable brutality and in contrast, beautiful stories of humanity that arise like a rose from concrete. Since then, determined to bear witness to the suffering of her people, she bravely revisited her homeland by squeezing through a hole in the fence on the Turkish border. The Crossing is Yazbek’s honest testament to the realities facing Syria that the world seems to overlook and not acknowledge. It bears comparison with George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia as a work of literature.Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Yazbek’s novel La marcheuse (Stock 2018). Some consider The Crossing a modern political classic. Next, Nada Ghosn will speak with Kuwait’s feminist activist, Dr. Harrowing…a chilling account of the brutality faced by people living in Syria… Daily Mail (Online)īrave, rebellious and passionate…Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident Financial TimesĪn eloquent, gripping and harrowing account of the country’s decline into barbarism by an incredibly brave Syrian Irish Times Samar Yazbek is the first woman to be profiled in a new TMR series on trailblazing Arab, Iranian and other women of the Middle East and North Africa. The Crossing: My journey to the shattered heart of Syria von Yazbek, Samar und eine große Auswahl ähnlicher Bücher, Kunst und Sammlerstücke erhältlich auf. Does the important job of putting faces to the numbing numbers of Syria’s crisis. Sheds valuable light on day-to-day life inside Syria, something of which we know little…a sobering glimpse of the wreckage that will be discovered when the war is over Sunday Times Powerful and moving…bears comparison with George Orwell’s Homage To Catalonia as a work of literature, Yazbek is a superb narrator…it may be that has written one of the first political classics of the 21st century Observer

The Crossing by Samar Yazbek