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Damascus diaries : life under the Assads / Peter Clark.
Van Pelt Library DS98.72.C52 A3 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Peter, 1939- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clark, Peter, 1939-.
- Clark, Peter.
- British Council--Officials and employees--Biography.
- British Council.
- British--Syria--Biography.
- British.
- Manners and customs.
- Syria--Social conditions--1971-.
- Syria.
- Social conditions.
- Syria--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Syria--Politics and government--1971-2000.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 393 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Gilgamesh Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- "When Peter Clark arrived in Damascus 1992 to open the new British Council office, he was not to know that the next five years were to give him a unique window on the upper echelons of Syrian society in the last few years of Hafez Al-Assad's rule. Here we see the dramas and routines of everyday life played out against the backdrop of the world's oldest continually inhabited city on the eve of collapse into civil war. Enchanting and alarming by turns, everyday events combine to paint a vivid and almost nostalgic picture of life in this remarkable city. This highly entertaining and highly personal account of life in Damascus in the 1990s paints the portrait of a city now immensely remote from the world we see on our news screens today."--Publisher description.
- Notes:
- Subtitle from cover.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781908531353
- 1908531355
- OCLC:
- 892564769
- Publisher Number:
- 99970227349
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