Categories Geopolitics Society Words Of An Exile: An Exclusive Interview With A Displaced Syrian Novelist Post author By Post date August 7, 2013 Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees and a Free Syrian Army soldier in Aleppo Scott Bobs / Facebook page / Worldcrunch “We knew there would be a price to pay for democracy. But no one imagined it would cost so much.” Tags Bashar al-Assad, Nihad Sirees, switzerland, syria, The Silence and the Roar