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The Syrian rebellion / Fouad Ajami.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ajami, Fouad.
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 624.
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 624
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Syria--History--21st century.
- Political violence.
- Protest movements--Syria--History--21st century.
- Protest movements.
- Syria--History--Civil War, 2011-.
- Syria.
- Syria--Politics and government--2000-.
- Assad, Bashar, 1965-.
- Assad, Bashar.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and differences in skills between former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor son, Bashar, Ajami explains how an irresistible force clashed with an immovable object: the regime versus people who conquered fear to challenge a despot of unspeakable cruelty.
- Contents:
- Prologue : the inheritor
- Come the mountain people
- The time of the founder
- False dawn
- The boys of Deraa
- The phantoms of Hama
- The truth of the sects
- Sarajevo on the Orontes
- The stalemate
- Dreaming of home : a note on the exiles
- Fragments of a past mourned and dreaded.
- Notes:
- "Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780817915063
- 0817915060
- OCLC:
- 808344426
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