Book presentation: ‘Syria. Revolution, sectarianism and jihad’
The Three Cultures Foundation of the Mediterranean presents the book Syria. Revolution, sectarianism and jihad, next January 24 at 7:30pm at its headquarters in Seville.
The book by Professor Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio, recently published by Libros de la Catarata, reviews the current situation of a conflict that continues for more than five years. At present the Syrian State is divided by zones depending on who controls it; in the text there are mentions up to seven different powers in the territory to which it would have to be added the different controls within the same city as is the well-known case of Aleppo.
The book makes a journey that begins with the arrival to power of Bashar al-Asad (president by accident, never better said, since his father had designated successor to his brother, who died in a traffic accident), and continues with the development of the protests that began with what was called the ‘Arab spring’ and that in all countries had the same yearning: ‘Al-shaab yurid yasqut al-nizam’ (the people want the regime to fall), which eventually turned into a civil war and the later eruption of Daesh or ISIS, in what the author calls the ‘jihadist storm’.
The author of the book will be accompanied by Emilio González Ferrín, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Thought at the University of Seville and Director of the Al-Andalus Chair of the Three Cultures Foundation of the Mediterranean.
About the Author:
Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Alicante and coordinator of the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign Policy Observatory of the Alternativas Foundation. He is also a researcher at the Inter-University Institute for Social Development and Peace (IUDESP) and a member of the Board of the Spanish Committee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). He has published or edited a dozen books on the Middle East, including Contemporary Syria (2009) and Syria. Revolution, sectarianism and jihad (2016), and is a regular contributor to various media outlets such as El País, La Sexta and RTVE.