Defiance (inbunden, eng)

An unprecedented account of resistance from a young Syrian woman who risked everything to rebel against the authoritarian regime - and her own family

Loubna Mrie was raised a staunch Syrian Alawite. The Alawites, an insular ethnic group, lived under oppression until 1970, when a coup saw Hafez al-Assad seize total power in SyriaLoubna''s grandfather helped plan this coup, her father was an enforcer and assassin of the Assad regime, and her community revered the new president with a near-religious devotion.

Yet when the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, Loubna found herself at an anti-government demonstration and was forever changed by what she witnessedHer jeans splattered with fellow protesters'' blood, she plunged into a life of activism, becoming a traitor to both the regime and her abusive father. The consequences were horrifying.

Defiance is a searing, ground-level view of survival and resistance at the flash point of the most visible and least understood war in recent history, only ending in 2024And it is told from a perspective that is rarely considered, let alone heard - that of a Syrian Alawite woman.