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Every title in the Siwar Al Assad books 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 his published works below.

Damascus Has Fallen

This novel by Siwar Al Assad takes a look at Syria. The country 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. Damascus Has Fallen is different from other Syrian war novels and Middle Eastern literature. In his acclaimed published work, the multilingual author offers a peek at 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

This book by Siwar Al Assad revolves around Paul Ollenson. After receiving a heart transplant at a remarkably young age, Paul 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 historical fiction book that explores the fragile ties between memory, identity, and the secrets we carry within.

Altana

Kandiya, a young girl living in a remote village deep within a mysterious Amazonian jungle, gradually discovers she possesses unique supernatural gifts: she can communicate with nature and receives strange visions of the future. When two supernatural creatures, Tal and Kri-Kri, suddenly arrive in Altana, the village’s tranquility is shattered, revealing ancient secrets and unleashing plots and betrayals.

Palmyre pour toujours

As a child, Siwar Al Assad, the multilingual author stood in awe of the ancient ruins of Palmyra – that timeless Syrian heritage site shimmering with mystery amidst the desert. Its majestic columns, once vibrant with life, would come to symbolize both the glory and the fragility of human achievement. A UNESCO heritage site since 1980, Palmyra has suffered devastating loss during Syria’s civil war. This Middle Eastern Literature focuses on eloquent reflection and global comparisons to cities like Carthage, Syracuse, and Timbuktu. Using it, 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, the novel by Siwar Al Assad is a powerful plea wrapped in poetic optimism. This Syrian War novel is a literary call to cherish cultural memory before it fades.

Guard Thy Heart

What becomes of a heart that has been broken and stitched back to life? This book by Siwar Al Assad focuses on this. 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.

This book is for readers who have wondered whether love can be rekindled, faced the quiet battle between duty and desire, believed that healing begins where truth is found, or longed for something beautiful to awaken something forgotten in them.

Le temps d’une saison

This historical fiction book focuses on wars. 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, a novel by Siwar Al Assad 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.

Pourquoi ils font le Djihad

Who are these thugs turned terrorists? Why all this violence, this hatred of France and the police? Who are these teenagers who worship Bin Laden and harbor an unwavering admiration for gangsters, terrorists, Mohamed Merah, and Scarface? Who are those who identify with the Palestinian cause and import this conflict into France? Among them are bewildered, desperate young men, whom only religious extremists welcome with open arms. Educated young people, even graduates, preferring to die far from France, in Iraq or Syria, new lands of jihad… For several years, the author discreetly immersed himself in the heart of gangs, housing projects, prisons, places of worship, and police forces to better understand: riots, robberies, ambushes, thuggery, gang warfare, trafficking…

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