Emily Feng — Our Hearts Burned for Home: Uyghur Militants in Syria's Civil War - With Abigail Hauslohner — at Conn Ave

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What drove a few thousand men from the deserts of western China to the front lines of Syria's war? In Our Hearts Burned for Home https://politics prose.com/book/9781967190188 , journalist Emily Feng unearths the untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China's expanding police state only to become a pivotal force in the fall of Bashar al Assad's regime. At the heart of this narrative is a startling paradox: Beijing's repression, meant to crush dissent, instead scattered and radicalized a generation. Tracing the journey from the crushed student protests of 1990s Xinjiang to the Islamist battlegrounds of Idlib, this book reveals how a campaign of surveillance and cultural erasure helped give rise to a Uyghur militant movement far from home. Through vivid reporting and rare…

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