{"product_id":"defiance-2","title":"Defiance","description":"Loubna Mrie was raised a staunch Syrian Alawite, the same sect as then President Hafez al-Assad. Her mother''s father helped plan the coup that saw Hafez seize power in 1970 and bring the Alawites out of hiding and into a position of total control. Her father was intimately involved in Hafez''s government as an enforcer and assassin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Arab Spring reached Syria in 2011, she attended a protest against his son Bashar''s government out of curiosity and her life changed forever. When she returned to her grandparents'' home in Damascus, her family called her a traitor. Unable to look back, she plunged ahead into a life of activism - in opposition to both the regime and her abusive father - with unimaginable consequences. Loubna''s father was exiled, her mother murdered and her boyfriend, Peter Kassig, an American, was executed by ISIS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis memoir will tell her story in her own words.","brand":"Little, Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109098725711,"sku":"9780349013350","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780349013350_1-defiance.jpg?v=1772006886","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/defiance-2","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}