Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution

Manbij was, in fact, known for its poets, and Hasan developed the theory that it was the artesian springs and majestic cedars that turned the city into a font of poetic possibility. With this stunning realization, the world suddenly made sense; Hasan began to understand that every pronouncement from the authorities, every headline from Lebanon, was a fiction. This drew the ire of certain other exiled Syrian revolutionaries, who accused him of clinging to old fantasies, of burying his head amid the terrible truth of Assad’s victory. Late in the evening: This group was led by Abu Obeida al-Iraqi, who recounted this event in an interview.