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The Syrian poet
Nizar Qabbani wrote that words, like sparrows, do not need entry visas. We created
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War in this spirit.
Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian Revolution — and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism, impossible violence and repression, and, even in the midst of war, profound acts of courage, creativity, and hope.
The book was born of a Twitter collaboration that began when Marwan was in ISIS-occupied Raqqa, and was written over two years, in Aleppo, Istanbul, Ankara, Mosul, and New York. While we wrote it, we were both giving each other a sort of literary education...