The award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid discusses her new book No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria (Norton, 2018), with Joseph Planta.

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid (W.W. Norton, 2018). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: No Turning Back

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, at TheCommentary.ca.

The journalist Rania Abouzeid has just published a remarkable book, featuring her years of covering the Syrian war. In No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria, she writes of the conflict through the eyes of several disparate characters, who all provide a more complete portrait of a country shattered, yet one as the subtitle of the book suggests, that is not without hope. The Assad regime has branded Ms. Abouzeid a spy, and has banned her from Syria. She continues to cover the country, sometimes getting smuggled in. Rania Abouzeid won the Michael Kelly Award and a George Polk Award for foreign reporting. She is a New America Fellow, and her work has appeared in such publications as the New Yorker, Time, Foreign Affairs, Politico, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times. The CBC documentary she produced, Syria: Behind Rebel Lines won a Canadian Screen Award. The website for more is at www.raniaabouzeid.com. This book is published by W.W. Norton. She joined me from Beirut, Lebanon last week. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Raina Abouzeid; Ms. Abouzeid, good morning.

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