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No turning back is a story of intense, relentless suffering. The author chronicles the syrian civil war not as a series of events but as the intertwined journeys both figurative and literal of multiple individuals, participants willing and unwilling. Syrian kurds reshape region with books and schools when eyub mohamad was a boy, security forces beat his father into paralysis. No turning back rania abouzeid on reporting in wartime. Peter bergen, author of united states of jihad and manhunt.
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