Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan

Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan is a book that provides a glimpse into the stories of Syrian refugee women who have survived the Syrian uprising. The book chronicles the history of Syria's colonial legacy, the torture and cruelty of the Bashar al-Assad regime, and the displacement of more than 5.3 million Syrian refugees due to the crisis. It contains nearly two dozen interviews with single mothers, widows, women with disabilities, and those who are victims of physical and psychological abuse. The women's stories speak of nearly insurmountable social, economic, physical, and emotional challenges, and provide a distinct perspective of the Syrian conflict. The book registers the womens political outcry against displacement, injustice, and abuse and will interest all readers who support refugees and displaced persons, as well as students and scholars of Middle East studies, political science, women's studies, and peace studies.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 134 pages
\n Publication date: 01 September 2021
\n Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
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The al-Zaatari Camp in northern Jordan is the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, housing 80,000 inhabitants. While the Western media has portrayed al-Zaatari as an ideal refugee camp, the Syrian women living within its confines offer a very different account of their daily reality.

Defiance in Exile: Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan presents, for the first time in a book-length format, the opportunity to hear the refugee women's own words about torment, struggle, and persecution—and of an enduring spirit that defies a difficult reality. Their stories speak of nearly insurmountable social, economic, physical, and emotional challenges, and provide a distinct perspective of the Syrian conflict.

Waed Athamneh and Muhammad Musad began collecting the testimonies of Syrian refugee women in 2015. The authors chronicle the history of Syria's colonial legacy, the torture and cruelty of the Bashar al-Assad regime, which resulted in the loss of nearly half a million Syrians' lives, and the eventual displacement of more than 5.3 million Syrian refugees due to the crisis. The book contains nearly two dozen interviews, which give voice to single mothers, widows, women with disabilities, and those who are victims of physical and psychological abuse. Having lost husbands, children, relatives, and friends to the conflict, they struggle with what it means to be a Syrian refugee—and what it means to be a Syrian woman.

Defiance in Exile follows their fight for survival during war and the sacrifices they had to make. It depicts their journey, their desperate, chaotic lives as refugees, and their hopes and aspirations for themselves and their children in the future.

\n Weight: 214g\n
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780268201173\n \n