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02550aam a2200373Ii 4500 001 E60801BCCCA911EAB0EB862797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200723010106 008 200710t20202020nyu 000 0ceng d 020 $a 1984817183 020 $a 9781984817181 035 $a (OCoLC)1164185358 040 $a IG$ $b eng $e rda $c IG$ $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 4 $a DS99.R27 $b C66 2020 100 1 $a Conn, Jordan Ritter, $e author. 245 14 $a The road from Raqqa : $b a story of brotherhood, borders, and belonging / $c Jordan Ritter Conn. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Ballantine Books, $c [2020] 300 $a vi, 255 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The Alkasem brothers, Riyad and Bashar, spend their childhood in Raqqa, the Syrian city that would later become the capital of ISIS. As a teenager in the 1980s, Riyad witnesses the devastating aftermath of the Hama massacre--an atrocity that the Hafez al-Assad regime commits upon its people. Wanting to expand his notion of government and justice, Riyad moves to the United States to study law, but his plans are derailed and he eventually falls in love with a Southern belle. They move to a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, where they raise two sons and where Riyad opens a restaurant--CafeÌ Rakka--cooking the food his grandmother used to make. But he finds himself confronted with the darker side of American freedoms: the hardscrabble life of a newly arrived immigrant, enduring bigotry, poverty, and loneliness. Years pass, and at the height of Syria's civil war, fearing for his family's safety halfway across the world, he risks his own life by making a dangerous trip back to Raqqa. ashar, meanwhile, in Syria. After his older brother moves to America, Bashar embarks on a brilliant legal career under the same corrupt Assad government that Riyad despises. Reluctant to abandon his comfortable (albeit conflicted) life, he fails to perceive the threat of ISIS until it's nearly too late."-- $c Publisher marketing. 600 10 $a Alkasem, Riyad. 600 10 $a Alkasem, Bashar. 650 0 $a Refugees $z Syria $v Biography. 650 0 $a Refugees $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Brothers $v Biography. 651 0 $a Syria $x History $y Civil War, 2011- 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l CPPC926 $d 20231111014019.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200902012157.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200723010632.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E60801BCCCA911EAB0EB862797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search