Books by ياسين الحاج صالح, Naomí Ramírez Díaz, Santiago Alba Rico

The subtitle is Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy , and the author is leading Syrian intellectual Yassin Al-Haj Saleh.  Imagine having a well-written book, totally conversant in the arguments of the social sciences, that set out to explain the Syrian tragedy to an intelligent reader.  Here is one typical bit: