Inside Syria - A Physician s Memoir is a street level view of Syria from 1965 that is far more nuanced than most reports in the US media.
Tarif Bakdash, MD, was born and raised in Syria.
He went to school with Bashar al-Assad, worked with Bashar s wife Asma, butted heads with Ba ath Party bureaucrats, lost friends to anti-Islamic purges.
Tarif tells his story: a nurturing childhood in a warm family against fear of war, the maiming of his mother, jailing of a schoolmate for no reason, .
Cune Press Inside syria - a physician's memoir: my life as a child, a student & an md in an era of war, hardcover/tarif bakdash
