The Syrian rebellion

by Ajami, Fouad

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Title Statements

Full title :The Syrian rebellion / Fouad Ajami.

Summary

In The Syrian Rebellion, Fouad Ajami offers a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria. Focusing on the similarities and the 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. Although the people at first hoped that Bashar would open up the prison that Syria had become under his father, it was not to be--and rebellion soon followed. Ajami shows how, for four long decades, the Assad dynasty, the intelligence barons, and the brigade commanders had grown accustomed to a culture of quiescence and silence. But Syrians did not want to be ruled by Bashar's children the way they had been ruled by Bashar and their parents had been by Bashar's father. When the political hurricane known as the Arab Spring hit the region, Bashar al-Assad proclaimed his country's immunity to the troubles. He was wrong. This book tells how a proud people finally came to demand something more than a drab regime of dictatorship and plunder.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University
Place of Publication:Stanford, California
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

Notes

"Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order."

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 240 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780817915049, 0817915044
oclc:ocn780480618
LC Classification:DS98.6
Dewey Decimal:956.9104/2

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.

Subjects

Arab Spring, 2010- Arabischer Frühling Asad, Baššār al Assad, Bashar Aufstand Contestation -- Histoire -- 21e siècle.… History Political violence Political violence -- History -- 21st c… Politics and government Politiskt våld -- historia -- 2000-tale… Protest movements Protest movements -- History -- 21st ce… Proteströrelser -- historia -- 2000-tal… Since 2000 Syria Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- Syria -- Politics and government -- 200… Syrie -- Histoire -- 2011- (Guerre civi… Syrie -- Politique et gouvernement -- 2…