Books By Siwar Al-Assad
Enter Siwar Al Assad’s World, Where Every Story Is A Journey
Every title in the Siwar Al-Assad collection is the product of the same animating conviction: that fiction, when written with discipline and honesty, can do what no other form can. It can make you inhabit a life entirely unlike your own and come away from it changed. Browse the full collection below.
Damascus Has Fallen
Syria itself is temporarily lost, consumed, cloaked in chaos and overshadowed by confusion. In the ruins, ordinary lives become extraordinary stories, each person compelled to acts of bravery, heartache, and defiance they never dreamed themselves capable of.
In Damascus Has Fallen, we see Syria through the eyes of its storm-tossed people, a place where every location holds a secret, every choice is a moral quandary, and by the minute, everything in a person’s life can change. This is a gripping story about humanity at its most vulnerable and resilience in the face of overwhelming darkness.
In a fight for survival when hope feels out of reach, what choices will they make? Because in Syria, every choice comes with a cost.
A Coeur Perdu
After receiving a heart transplant at a remarkably young age, Paul Ollenson emerges with a renewed sense of purpose. Grateful for a second chance at life, he devotes himself to serving others as a senior official within the United Nations.
He marries Elisabeth, a brilliant American lawyer. But as their life together unfolds, Paul senses a growing disconnect, his mind and heart drawn increasingly to the memory of Carla, a woman from his past who vanished without explanation. Driven by lingering questions and an emotional unrest he can no longer ignore, Paul embarks on a deeply personal journey. What really happened during his operation? And why is he only now learning that Carla’s parents died in a mysterious boating accident?
Part love story, part psychological thriller, A Coeur Perdu is a compelling debut that explores the fragile ties between memory, identity, and the secrets we carry within.
Pourquoi Ils Font Le Djihad
This investigative work, to which Siwar Al-Assad contributed the preface, dives into the social and psychological roots of radicalisation in contemporary France. Author Jean-Paul Ney spent years embedded in gangs, prisons, and places of worship to produce an unflinching account of a generation that has drifted toward extremism.
Apolitical and non-partisan, the book delivers an honest reckoning with the failures of policy, justice, and education that have left a generation susceptible to violent ideology.
Le temps d’une saison
In the wake of the First World War, Paris dances to the rhythm of rebirth. Yet for Angèle de Lestrange, the daughter of a renowned art collector, life feels anything but joyful. Haunted by a painful heartbreak, she longs for change.
Seeking distance and renewal, she crosses the Atlantic to New York, where the summer of 1920 delivers more than escape. Immersed in the glitter of the American Roaring Twenties, Angèle stumbles upon a secret she never expected: a decadent evening leads to a brazen heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entangling her in an international art trafficking ring far beyond her control.
Le temps d’une saison is a richly layered historical novel that blends romance, suspense, and intrigue, a tribute to a dazzling era and to the courage of those who dare to follow the truth.
Guard Thy Heart
What becomes of a heart that has been broken and stitched back to life? Guard Thy Heart is the story of Paul Ollenson, a principled UN lawyer whose outer purpose masks an inner ache. Years after a life-saving heart transplant, Paul finds himself adrift in a marriage that no longer breathes, and haunted by a love that once set his soul alight.
In the tranquil beauty of Provence, surrounded by lavender fields and summer winds, Paul confronts the emotional weight he has long buried. But what begins as quiet reflection quickly becomes a reckoning, whispers of a forgotten woman, a tragic memory reawakened, a choice between comfort and truth.
Guard Thy Heart is a stirring meditation on love’s fragility, the mystery of second chances, and the fierce grace of starting over.
- Wondered whether love can be rekindled, or if it should be
- Faced the quiet battle between duty and desire
- Believed that healing begins where truth is found
- Longed for something beautiful to awaken something forgotten in you
Palmyre pour toujours
As a child, Siwar Al-Assad stood in awe of the ancient ruins of Palmyra, that timeless Syrian oasis shimmering with mystery amidst the desert. Its majestic columns, once vibrant with life, would come to symbolise both the glory and the fragility of human achievement.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980, Palmyra has suffered devastating loss during Syria’s civil war. Through eloquent reflection and global comparisons to cities like Carthage, Syracuse, and Timbuktu, the author invokes not just nostalgia, but responsibility, a call upon nations and individuals alike to remember, to preserve what is left, and to protect what remains.
Palmyre pour toujours is a powerful plea wrapped in poetic optimism. It is a literary call to cherish cultural memory before it fades.
Altana
Kandiya, a young girl living in a remote village deep in the mysterious Amazon jungle, gradually discovers she possesses unique supernatural gifts: she communicates with nature and receives strange visions of the future. When two supernatural creatures, Tal and Kri-Kri, suddenly arrive in Altana, the village’s tranquillity is shattered, revealing ancient secrets and sparking plots and betrayals.
As Kandiya is drawn into the heart of a power struggle in the secret city of Coralia, she must confront her own fears and the dark secrets of her people. Faced with difficult choices, she will do anything to save Altana and Coralia, reunite opposing worlds, and restore a balance threatened by chaos.
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