9 Days at Raqqa

Leila Mustapha is Kurdish and Syrian Her battle was Raqqa the former capital of the Islamic State with 300000 inhabitants reduced to a field of ruin after the war An engineer by training mayor at just 30 immersed in a world of men her mission is to rebuild her city to reconcile and to establish democracy there An extraordinary mission A French writer crosses Iraq and Syria to meet her In this still dangerous city she has 9 days to live with Leila and tell her story in a book