{"id":15296,"date":"2026-11-14T11:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whia.us\/?p=15296"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T21:19:00","slug":"marah-albukai-publishes-firsthand-account-of-syrias-revolution-and-the-fall-of-bashar-al-assad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/15296\/","title":{"rendered":"Marah Albukai Publishes Firsthand Account of Syria’s Revolution and the Fall of Bashar al-Assad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release<\/span><\/h1>\n

Syria, After the Turning Point<\/em><\/i> \u2014 the inside story of fifteen years, from the first demonstrations in Daraa to the morning Assad fled \u2014 is available now on Amazon<\/p>\n

Washington, DC \u2014 November 14, 2026<\/strong><\/b> \u2014 Syria, After the Turning Point: From Revolution to the Fall of Bashar al-Assad: Fifteen Years That Changed Syria and the Middle East<\/em><\/i>, by Marah Albukai, is published and available now on Amazon in paperback ($29.99, ISBN 9798140404154), hardcover ($39.99) and Kindle ($9.99):<\/p>\n

https:\/\/a.co\/d\/0fdZNOGN<\/a><\/p>\n

The book opens on the night of December 8, 2024. Albukai stayed awake in Washington watching Syria TV until, at 6:18 in the morning, Damascus time, it announced that Bashar al-Assad had fled the country. The first person she called was her son. “I did not watch Syria from a distance. I lived it,” she writes. “Fifty-four years of rule by one family ended in a single sentence on a television screen.”<\/p>\n

Albukai called for the ousting of Assad himself on Al Jazeera in March 2011, days after the first demonstrations in Daraa. She carried Syria’s case into the meeting rooms of Washington, served as a senior adviser to the Syrian High Negotiations Commission and the Constitutional Committee in Geneva, and chaired the Women’s Political Council. Between 2020 and 2026 she covered the White House as a senior correspondent, and she founded White House in Arabic (WHIA.US).<\/p>\n

The book tells what the fifteen years cost \u2014 and what the year since has asked of Syria: unity, justice, and the right of Syrians to decide their own future. It takes up the transfer of power, the unification of the country’s many armies into one, the protection of all Syrians, justice after dictatorship, the rebuilding of a broken economy, Syria’s relations with its neighbours, and three possible futures for the country through 2030. The book is 200 pages, with 43 colour photographs from fifteen years of the struggle.<\/p>\n

The book appears one month before the first anniversary of Assad’s fall, on December 8, 2026. Albukai is available for interview in Washington, DC, in person or by phone and video.<\/p>\n

An audiobook edition is forthcoming on Audible in early 2027.<\/p>\n

About the author:<\/strong><\/b> Marah Albukai is a scholar, writer, and journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of White House in Arabic (WHIA.US). She served as Senior White House Correspondent between 2020 and 2026, was a senior adviser to the Syrian High Negotiations Commission and the Constitutional Committee, and chaired the Women’s Political Council for the Geneva negotiations. She holds a master’s degree in comparative literature from La Sorbonne.<\/p>\n

Contact:<\/strong><\/b> Marah Albukai \u2014 syriaturningpoint@gmail.com | 202-368-6380<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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