Clues to Understanding the Civil War in Syria

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“My mother read through all the newspaper death notices over breakfast. From time to time she would grumble: ‘Sidika and Saffet are related both to me and to your dear departed father, so their names should have come just after Perran and her husband. Sukru Pasha’s daughters, Nigan, Turkan, and Sukran, have also been put in the wrong order. There was no need to include Uncle Zekeriya’s first wife, Melike the Arab. After all, she couldn’t have been married to your uncle for more than three months.’”