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S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The war is still on as Barzan and Raushan, a Syrian refugee couple, decide to settle in the city of Kobane to get their lives back together. The Brazilian journalist Patr\u00edcia Campos Mello tells the story of war in Syria as seen through<\/p>\n
this couple\u2019s eyes in a non-fiction book released this December in Brazil by publisher Companhia das Letras.<\/p>\n
The book is entitled Lua de Mel em Kobane <\/em>(Portuguese for \u2018Honeymoon in Kobane\u2019). The main characters were newlyweds by the time ISIS took their city by storm. Over the course of two years, Mello travelled to Kobane twice and conducted dozens of interviews with the couple and their family, friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n When they met online, Barzan and\u00a0Raushan\u00a0were living as refugees respectively in Istanbul, Turkey and Rybinsk, Russia. She was a Law student before the war broke out; he is a journalist by trade.<\/p>\n \u201cThey met on Facebook, fell in love and decided to marry and go back to his city: Kobane, Syria. Right in the middle of their honeymoon, ISIS stormed into the city, but instead of fleeing, they decided to stay and document the siege,\u201d Mello told ANBA. Almost 80% of the city were destroyed by attacks inflicted by the terrorist group and the USA.<\/p>\n Mello is a special reporter\/columnist with newspaper Folha de S.Paulo<\/em>. She was in Syria covering the war in 2015 as she happened upon Barzan and Raushan, who\u2019d\u00a0returned from their two-year asylum the year before\u00a0\u2013 at that point,\u00a0things seemed to be going back to normal in Northern Syria.<\/p>\n Mello set out to tell a love story in war times and to discuss the conflict through a romantic relationship. The book also deals with the rise of ISIS and the country the Kurds are trying to create for themselves in Northern Syria; it comprises 208 pages featuring plenty of photographs by F\u00e1bio Braga.<\/p>\n Patr\u00edcia Campos Mello <\/strong><\/p>\n < The book is based on 50-plus hours\u2019 worth of interviews made during trips to Syria in 2015 and 2016 \u2013 the second trip was taken exclusively for the purpose of interviewing people. \u201cIt was an amazing experience. I met wonderful people and I achieved a better understanding of the motivations of thousands of Syrian refugees,\u201d Mello told ANBA.<\/p>\n Although she isn\u2019t of Arab descent, Mello grew more and more interested in the region once the refugee crisis began. She has been to several Arab and Middle East countries \u2013 Syria, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Iran and Turkey \u2013 to cover news stories. The book is currently\u00a0available\u00a0only in Brazilian Portuguese, but Mello hopes it will be out in other countries as well. \u201cIt\u2019s a universal story, and it would be really cool to have it translated,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n Mello holds a degree in Journalism from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) and has been\u00a0covering\u00a0international relations, economics and human rights for 18 years now. She also holds a master\u2019s in Business and Economic Reporting from New York University, in addition to being one of the creators of the Muros do Mundo <\/em>(Walls of the World) project, which focuses on the migrant crisis. She has worked for other major media outlets and won journalism prizes. She has also published another book, \u00cdndia \u2013 Da mis\u00e9ria \u00e0 pot\u00eancia<\/em> (\u2018India, from poor to powerhouse\u2019), by publisher Editora Planeta.<\/p>\n Data sheet <\/strong> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brazilian journalist Patr\u00edcia Campos Mello\u2019s non-fiction book ‘Lua de Mel em Kobane’ tells the story of the Syrian conflict through the eyes of a refugee couple who return to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":192663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian journalist Patr\u00edcia Campos Mello\u2019s non-fiction book 'Lua de Mel em Kobane' tells the story of the Syrian conflict through the eyes of a refugee couple who return to the country.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/imagens\/cod_716343.jpg\")
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\nTitle: Lua de Mel em Kobane
\nAuthor: Patr\u00edcia Campos Mello
\nPages: 208
\nISBN: 9788535930184
\nPublisher: Companhia das Letras
\nPrice: BRL 49.90<\/p>\n