Award-winning journalist Rania Abu Zeid has made countless trips inside Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Washington, and several European towns and cities to cover the Syrian uprising and the deadly civil and proxy war that ensued and destroyed tens of millions of lives.

This week Rania Abouzeid joins us to talk about her new book, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria

Later in the program Vomena’s contributor Paola Messini sits down with Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan to discuss her latest album Al Jamilat (The Beautiful Ones)