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| Author | Philip Mansel |
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| Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
Publication date | February 28, 2016 |
| ISBN | 9780857727190 |
Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City is a non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, published by I.B.Tauris in 2016. It concerns Aleppo and how it changed from a more prosperous and cosmopolitan city to a war-torn environment.
A history of Aleppo from 1516 to the book's publication time takes up the initial 25% while the other portions of the book are travel writing from various time periods, [1] with many accounts written by people from the Western world. [2]
Justin Marozzi of The Spectator wrote that the author "goes about his business in a style at once accomplished, entertaining and idiosyncratic." [1] Marozzi concluded that the "Elegant and elegiac" book "is a precious monument to a once-splendid city that has been reduced to abject ruin and misery." [1]
Elif Shafak of the Financial Times wrote that the author has a genuine passion for Aleppo and "offers a unique perspective on the cultures around the Mediterranean." [2] Shafak concluded that it is "an eloquently written book that at times reads like an elegy to Aleppo’s bazaars, embracing worldview and cultural diversity." [2]
Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents as of 2021, it was Syria's largest city until its population was surpassed by Damascus, the capital of Syria, the largest in Syria's northern governorates and also one of the largest cities in the Levant region.
Elif Shafak is a Turkish-British novelist, essayist, public speaker, political scientist and activist.
Philip Robert Rhys Mansel is a British historian of courts and cities, and the author of a number of books about the history of France and the Ottoman Empire. He was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and obtained a doctorate at University College London in 1978. He has lived in Paris, Istanbul and Beirut and now lives in London.
Justin Marozzi is an English journalist, historian and travel writer.
The Battle of Aleppo was a major military confrontation in Aleppo, the largest city in Syria, between the Syrian opposition against the Syrian government, supported by Hezbollah, Shia militias and Russia, and against the Kurdish-majority People's Protection Units (YPG). The battle began on 19 July 2012 and was part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War. A stalemate that had been in place for four years finally ended in July 2016, when Syrian government troops closed the rebels' last supply line into Aleppo with the support of Russian airstrikes. In response, rebel forces launched unsuccessful counteroffensives in September and October that failed to break the siege; in November, government forces embarked on a decisive campaign that resulted in the recapture of all of Aleppo by December 2016. The Syrian government victory was widely seen as a turning point in Syria's civil war.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World is a 2019 novel by Turkish writer Elif Shafak and her eleventh overall. It is a one-woman story about a sex worker in Istanbul. It was released by Viking Press in 2019.
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean is a non-fiction book by Philip Mansel.
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