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001 2015025053
003 DLC
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008 150814s2016 nyu 000 0aeng
010 $a 2015025053
020 $a9781609806613 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
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050 00 $aDS98.72.B67$bA3 2016
082 00 $a956.9104/2$223
084 $aLAN008000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBorri, Francesca,$eauthor.
245 10 $aSyrian dust :$breporting from the heart of the war /$cFrancesca Borri ; translated by Anne Milano Appel.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bSeven Stories Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"August 21, 2003: a chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, and more than half of a population of 22 million people dispersed or refugeed in nearby countries: the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII according to the UN. Francesca Borri is one of them. But she does not leave. She is thirty years old. For months she covers the battle of Aleppo as a freelance reporter. And she quickly realizes that to report a war is to hide with dozens of women and children, even a baby, born there, in a grave, 'a piece of soil under the ground that is as expensive as three houses' or to scavenge for anything to burn for some warmth, 'a broken slipper, the plastic hand of a toy' or to mistake bloody figments of skull for rubble. To report a war is also to meet with officials more worried about the stain of snow on their Clarks than the people they are supposed to help. It is to explain what is happening in Aleppo to journalists who have only been there once, on vacation, and bought a carpet. It is risking one's life because of the jealousy of a fellow reporter. And it is also about dreaming of driving at night with the windows open, about remembering impossible little things, the particular light on that day in that cafe at the beach when you were a kid, the eyes of people you love, all the minuscule simple joys that can be lost in a moment. Syrian Dust is a raw and powerful account of the Syrian war that throws the reader right in the middle of it, without any shelter"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aBorri, Francesca.
651 0 $aSyria$xHistory$yCivil War, 2011-$vPersonal narratives, Italian.
650 0 $aWomen war correspondents$zItaly$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen war correspondents$zSyria$vBiography.
650 7 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aAppel, Anne Milano,$etranslator.