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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which have been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad emerged to ability in 1970. Its loss was central to her parents' decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling people who lived in the Tahaan building, past and present, Alia portrays the Syrians - the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Armenians, and Kurds - who worked, loved, and endured in close quarters, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family's home as the united states comes aside, she learns how to speak the coded words of oppression that is accessible in a dictatorship while privately confronting her own fears about Syria's future. The Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched, personal trip that shines a fragile but piercing light on Syrian record, population, and politics. Teeming with insights, the narrative weaves acute political examination with a hundred years of intimate genealogy, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that has been erased.
