{"product_id":"defiance","title":"Defiance","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349013350\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eLoubna 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis memoir will tell her story in her own words.","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41859311861893,"sku":"PR432405","price":51.8,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG41ECM5ZST.jpg?v=1789097565","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/defiance","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}