Anand Gopal on Days of Love and Rage: Revolution in Northern Syria

Noted journalist and author Anand Gopal joins BFA Visual and Critical Studies and the SVA Honors Program to discuss his new book Days of Love and Rage. The book, which has been compared to George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, tells the story of how fifteen years ago, in a northern Syrian city, a small group of men and women began a movement that overthrew a brutal dictatorship, carrying out one of the most remarkable experiments in democracy in modern times.

Anand Gopal is an American writer who contributes to The New Yorker and the author of Days of Love and Rage: A Story of Ordinary People Forging a Revolution, a work of narrative nonfiction about a group of revolutionaries who overthrew a dictator. He is also the author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes, which describes the travails of three Afghans caught in the war on terror. It was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has won many major journalism prizes, including the National Magazine Award, for his writing on conflict and the Middle East.