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Drawing discomfort from the Syrian refugee crisis
Piles of life jackets used by refugees and migrants lie at a dump in Molyvos village, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees
by Oliver Kugler
(Myriad £19.99)
AN ILLUSTRATED reportage documenting the fate of disparate and scattered Syrian refugees between 2013-16, Oliver Kugler's Escaping Wars and Waves reflects on the internecine conflict instigated by the West along the Libya and Ukraine “regime change”strategies to remove President Bashar al-Assad from power.
In consequence, millions of Syrians were displaced internally and beyond their country's borders.
At different times, Kugler went to the Domino camp for the displaced in Iraq, the Greek island of Kos, the “Jungle” squatter camp in Calais, resettled refugees in Birmingham and a family of refugees living temporarily close to his parents in his home town of Simmozheim in Germany’s Black Forest.
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