Abstract
Above: Um Radwan, a female fighter in the Free Syrian Army, stands as she holds her weapon in Aleppo’s Bustan al-Basha district October 3, 2013.
Credit: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters
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I write with blind eyes and forty fingers Samar Yazbek 130
Going dark Lucien Bourjeily 134
Coercion and warnings Mohammad al Ajami 149