10 days until Syria

A few days ago I made a reading list of books to take with me to Damascus. Since then, some others have been added. Here’s the final stack with the recently added titles below.

Sunday Stories: AGI Website Editorials 2003-2010 (Smitshuijzen)
A collection of short articles and case studies that demonstrate how graphic design has become an almost universal activity, growing ever closer links with other professions and pretty much all computer users. “Everyone with an ambition pays tribute to visual communication.”

Colonialism and Neocolonialism (Satre)
Collection of Satre’s writings on French colonialism in Algeria and the West’s conduct in the Third World in general. In these essays, Satre advocates violence as a legitimate response to repression — perhaps in tune with more recent polemic which posits that nonviolence is one of the most severe roadblocks to social change today?

… and an Arabic dictionary, grammar guide, and course book.