Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitness perspective on the country’s bitter conflict through the lens of architecture, showing how the built environment and its destruction hold up a mirror to the communities that inhabit it. From Syria’s tolerant past, with churches and mosques built alongside one another in Old Homs and members of different religions living harmoniously together, the book chronicles the recent breakdown of social cohesion in Syria’s cities. With the lack of sha The Battle for Home - Marwa al-Sabouni, Roger Scruton od authora Marwa al-Sabouni, Roger Scruton a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.