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Sam Dagher
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- Curations by: The Matrix
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Sam Dagher
- City: Beirut
- Country: Lebanon
Current News
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What's Up?
Assad or We Burn the Country
How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
In spring 2011, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned to his friend and army commander, Manaf Tlass, for advice about how to respond to Arab Spring-inspired protests. Tlass pushed for conciliation but Assad decided to crush the uprising — an act which would catapult the country into an eight-year long war, killing almost half a million and fueling terrorism and a global refugee crisis.
Assad or We Burn the Country examines Syria’s tragedy through the generational saga of the Assad and Tlass families, once deeply intertwined and now estranged in Bashar’s bloody quest to preserve his father’s inheritance. By drawing on his own reporting experience in Damascus and exclusive interviews with Tlass, Dagher takes readers within palace walls to reveal the family behind the destruction of a country and the chaos of an entire region.
Dagher shows how one of the world’s most vicious police states came to be and explains how a regional conflict extended globally, engulfing the Middle East and pitting the United States and Russia against one another.
Timely, propulsive, and expertly reported, Assad or We Burn the Country is the definitive account of this global crisis, going far beyond the news story that has dominated headlines for years.
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Sam Dagher has reported in the Middle East for more than fifteen years. He was the only Western reporter based in Damascus from 2012 to 2014, until being detained by Assad’s henchmen in an underground prison and expelled for reporting deemed unfavorable to the regime.
He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Agence France Presse, and has covered the conflict in Iraq, the Arab Spring uprisings, and Libya. The Wall Street Journal nominated Dagher’s work from Syria for the Pulitzer Prize and other journalism awards.
Contact Information
- Email: sam@samdagherjournalist.com
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Management/Booking:
For interviews, speaking engagements, and events, please contact:
Sarah Fuentes
Fletcher & Co.
sarah@fletcherandco.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://samdagherjournalist.com/the-book/
- ▶ Twitter: samdagher
- ▶ Instagram: dagher.sam
- ▶ Website: http://samdagherjournalist.com
- ▶ Articles: http://samdagherjournalist.com/journalism/
- ▶ Articles 2: http://www.theatlantic.com/author/sam-dagher/
- ▶ Articles 3: http://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-dagher
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
“As the only Western reporter based in Damascus during the early years of the civil war, Dagher has a rich perspective on the inner machinations of the regime of Bashar al Assad. In this important book, he lays out in grim detail the staggering cynicism and ruthless brutality of the Assad family. In doing so, he provides readers with a timely description of the dynasty that precipitated the destruction of a nation.”
- Clarissa Ward, Chief International Correspondent, CNN International
“The Syrian uprising has been one of the most consequential events in our new century-it has changed the world. Sam Dagher has been reporting from the heart of the crisis. His book, told through the eyes of two important Syrian insiders, a human rights activist and a former Brigadier General of the Syrian Republican Guard, is a vivid description of the crisis as it unfolded over the past 8 years. It is a must read for anyone who seeks to understand the complex world we are living in.”
- Dr. Zaher Sahloul, Syrian American doctor and President of MedGlobal
“A riveting chronicle from a courageous journalist who was there to witness and report the truth. A book that should deservedly garner significant award attention.”
- Kirkus, starred review