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Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances - Repression & Revolution from Damascus Spring to Arab Spring (Hardcover, large type edition)
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Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances - Repression & Revolution from Damascus Spring to Arab Spring (Hardcover, large type edition)
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When Arab Spring swept the region, Syria s President Bashar al-Asad
thought that he was safe. Over the previous five years, the
moderate opposition had been crushed. Unlike Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen,
and Libya, Syria had taken an anti-US stance since the US invasion
of Iraq in 2003. Syrians were used to living under sanctions and
being called terrorists. Asad told movie stars Brad and Angelina
when they visited Damascus that he did not need personal security,
because ordinary Syrians were protecting him. The Syrian president
was convinced that Syrians loved him. And not only Syrians. Vogue
agreed in its March 2011 puff piece that described Asad's wife as a
Rose in the Desert. What of Syrian naysayers? Asad counted on his
ruthless and all-seeing mukhabarat to keep them in line. Tackling
politics, society, religion, and economy, Syria - A Decade of Lost
Chances explores the eleven years of Asad s rule between the
clampdown on Damascus Spring in 2001 and the challenge of
escalating street protests in the wake of the Arab Spring in 2011
and 2012. Author Carsten Wieland interviewed the major opposition
figures year by year over this decade. A valuable complement to the
growing body of indigenous reporting (youtube videos, blog
commentary), Syria - A Decade of Lost Chances provides context and
expert insight that reveals the essential struggle and untold
barbarity unfolding here in what Syrian government tourist
brochures call the cradle of civilization.
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Imprint: |
Cune Press,US
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
Carsten Wieland
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Dimensions: |
230 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
336 |
Edition: |
large type edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61457-001-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-61457-001-9 |
Barcode: |
9781614570011 |
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