From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation- peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by nighttime shellings, and religious conviction sharpened by rage to a radical point. Abouzeid shows Syrians finding new ways to live and resist even as the cruelty of President Bashar al-Assad 's dictatorial regime and the rising threat of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State tears their homeland apart.
