On the Verge of a Nation’s Breakdown
A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution By Samar Yazbek Translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss Haus Publishing, 256 pages, $18.95 Syrian journalist and novelist Samar Yazbek was born into privilege 42 years ago, a member of a well-connected, wealthy Alawite family and related by marriage to Osama bin Laden on…