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Najem, Muhammad

Summary: "Muhammad Najem was only eight years old when the war in Syria began. He was thirteen when his beloved Baba, his father, was killed in a bombing while praying. By fifteen, Muhammad didn't want to hide anymore--he wanted to act. He was determined to reveal what families like his were enduring in Syria: bombings by their own government and days hiding in dark underground shelters. Armed with the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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Kullab, Samya

Summary: "A fictionalized account of a family fleeing war-torn Syria after their home in Aleppo is destroyed. They endure wretched refugee camps, ocean crossings, swindlers - all to find safety in the West."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2017

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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 971 KUL

Biehl, Janet

Summary: "In the summer of 2012 the Kurdish people of northern Syria set out to create a multiethnic society in the Middle East. Persecuted for much of the 20th century, they dared to try to overcome social fragmentation by affirming social solidarity among all the region's ethnic and religious peoples. As Syria plunged into civil war, the Kurds and their Arab and Assyrian allies established a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PM Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.91 BIE

Kugler, Olivier

Summary: While on assignment between 2013 and 2017, often for Doctors Without Borders, Olivier Kugler interviewed and photographed Syrian refugees and their caregivers in camps, on the road, and in provisional housing in Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, France, Switzerland, and England. Escaping Wars and Waves is the astonishing result of that record keeping―a graphic novel that brings to life the improvised...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Mundi, an imprint of the Pennsylvania State University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 956.91 KUG

Sulaiman, Hamid

Summary: "It is spring 2012 and 40,000 people have died since the start of the Syrian Arab Spring. In the wake of this, Yasmine has set up a clandestine hospital in the north of the country. Her town is controlled by Assad's brutal regime, but is relatively stable. However, as the months pass, the situation becomes increasingly complex and violent. Told in stark, beautiful black-and-white imagery,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SUL

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