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Rania Abouzeid's book 'No Turning Back,' about the Syrian civil war, is eloquent and devastating

The Syrian Civil War has been raging without letup for seven years with no hope of resolution or end in sight. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled, the warring sides have fractured and multiplied, and reports of atrocities have mounted as all combatants grow more desperate. As award-winning international journalist Rania Abouzeid puts it in her eloquent and devastating new book “The war there has become a conflict where the dead are not merely nameless, reduced to

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