Ian Birrell

Trapped in hell

In an understated gem of a book, Marwa al-Sabouni, an architect from Homs, describes a country ripped apart. Foreign correspondents Janine di Giovanni and Charles Glass do the same.

  • The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria

    Janine di Giovanni

    Bloomsbury, pp. 224

  • Syria Burning: A Short History of Catastrophe

    Charles Glass

    Verso, pp. 192

  • The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect

    Marwa al-Sabouni

    Thames & Hudson, pp. 208

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