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The Battle for Home Marwa Al-Sabouni

The Battle for Home By Marwa Al-Sabouni

The Battle for Home by Marwa Al-Sabouni


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Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it.

The Battle for Home Summary

The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa Al-Sabouni

Drawing on the author's personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this book offers an eyewitness perspective on the country's bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment offers a mirror to the community that inhabits it. From Syria's tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria's cities, with the lack of shared public spaces intensifying divisions within the community and corrupt officials interfering in town planning for their own gain, actions symptomatic of wider abuses of power. With first-hand accounts of mortar attacks and stories of refugees struggling to find a home, this compelling and original book explores the personal impact of the conflict and offers hope for how architecture can play a role in rebuilding a sense of identity within a damaged society.

The Battle for Home Reviews

'An angry and personal memoir' - Daily Telegraph
'An understated gem of a book ... gripping' - The Spectator
'Marwa al-Sabouni writes with clarity and conviction' - The Times
'The moving record of one person's effort to stay loyal to her homeland, at a time of great suffering and personal distress. It tells a painful and tragic story. But it is also the expression of a beautiful soul, who comes to us out of a confused and dreadful battle with a message of hope' - Roger Scruton

About Marwa Al-Sabouni

Marwa al-Sabouni has a PhD in Islamic Architecture and runs a private architectural studio in Homs, Syria. She is co-owner of the first and only online media site dedicated to architectural news in Arabic: www.arch-news.net.

Table of Contents

1. The Battle of Freedom * 2. The Battle of Old Homs * 3. The Battle of Mortar * 4. The Battle of Baba Amr * 5. The Battle of Finding a Home * 6. The Battle of Continuation

Additional information

GOR007656201
9780500343173
0500343179
The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect by Marwa Al-Sabouni
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
20160418
184
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