SyriaThe Miramichi Reader

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Peace by Chocolate: The Hadhad Family’s Remarkable Journey from Syria to Canada by Jon Tattrie

March 20, 2021 by Ian Colford

This remarkable book tells the extraordinary story of the Hadhad family — Isam, his wife Shahnaz, and their sons and daughters — and the founding of the chocolatier, Peace by Chocolate.

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Making it Home by Alison DeLory

November 3, 2019March 23, 2019 by James M. Fisher

In Alison DeLory's Making it Home, published by Vagrant Press, we have a novel involving a Syrian family coming to Canada. The author dovetails a Syrian family escaping Aleppo to live in a refugee camp in Turkey, with that of a family in Falkirk Cove, a small community on Cape Breton Island.

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Quill of the Dove by Ian Thomas Shaw

December 26, 2018 by James M. Fisher

Quill of the Dove is an excellent literary political thriller that takes place amid the Middle East skirmishes over several decades.