Syria in Ashes

Leverage the author’s connections in the media to pitch reviews, interviews, and op-eds across a wide range of mainstream and left-media. As this book follows on from the successful 2015 book Syria Burning, we will capitalise on previous media coverage and existing interest in this topic. The author has previously appeared on BBC Newshour, BBC Today, RT, Democracy Now!, VICE, The Takeaway with John Hockenberry, and has written for the New York Review of Books, the Evening Standard, The Monocle, and more. Syria Burning was reviewed by The Observer, History News Network, Monterey Herald, Warscapes, and more, and we will pitch to these outlets again. Pitch op-eds, reviews, and excerpts to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, The Nation, Al Jazeera, Jacobin, The Washington Post, The Intercept, Bookforum, Middle East Eye, Tribune, Morning Star, Monthly Review, Red Pepper, Declassified UK, The Canary, Novara Media, OpenDemocracy, Double Down News, and more. Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews with Democracy Now!, Al Jazeera’s UpFront, The Mehdi Hasan Show, BBC News, Intercepted, The Dig, Breaking Points, Rising, Useful Idiots, Bad Faith, Citations Needed, On the Media, Novara Media, A World to Win, and more. A launch event with guest speakers in New York will garner further media attention.

In this extensively updated edition of a book that was widely praised on its first publication nearly a decade ago, the acclaimed foreign correspondent and author Charles Glass, brings the the story of Syria up to date. In these pages he looks at the way the Assad government emerged victorious from a conflict that has left the country in ruins, wide swathes of its population immiserated, and a range of conflicts still unresolved. The nuances of the Syrian civil war have never been well-understood in the West, least of all, it seems, by governments in the US and Europe, who, anticipating Assad’s departure, made it a condition of any negotiated settlement. The consequences of that miscalculation, Charles Glass contends in this illuminating survey, contributed greatly to the disaster we witness today. Glass has reported extensively from the Middle East, and travelled frequently in Syria, over several decades. Here he melds together reportage, analysis and history to provide an accessible overview of the origins and permutations defining the conflict, situating it clearly in the overall crisis of the region. His voice, elegant and concise, humane and richly-informed, is a vital antidote to the sloganizing that shapes so much commentary, and policy, concerning Syria.