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No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria and
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria. She is a former Nieman Fellow.
In early 2011, as she watched the removal of the graffiti that had been scrawled around Tahrir Square in the heady days of the popular uprising, followed by a “cleansing” of that space of revolt, Dina Heshmat realized she was witnessing the deliberate rewriting of history, a deletion of the people’s spontaneous discourse, to be replaced by a more elitist narrative.
Guided by this awareness, Heshmat sets out, in
Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) to re-examine the Egyptian revolution of the previous century, looking into the country’s archives to find unpublished novels and out-of-print articles that reflect the people’s mood during what she argues was the early 20th century’s equivalent of Egypt’s Arab Spring: a popular uprising against an oppressive regime by society’s poorest and most downtrodden classes, that was later claimed by the nationalist bourgeoisie.
wartime syria is out today. switching gears, let s get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. how is the nor easter looking? blizzard warnings have been expanded. it s another miserable morning compute. schools canceled all over the place in new england. we have 3.5 million people under blizzard warnings. winter storm washings include roughly about 13 million people. once you include the white with the winter weather advisories, it jumped up to 45 million or so. usually middle of march you get a lot of mixed type storms. that s what we have right now. the green is the rain. we have that early but now the column of air has cooled off and now we re all snow from boston out to the cape. but the issue is that some areas have temperatures in the boundary layer towards the ground that are marginal or above freezing. in some areas, you ring going to get wet pavement with snow