LEADER 04075nam 2200589 450 001 9910787862403321 005 20230124191209.0 010 $a1-62637-080-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781626370807 035 $a(CKB)2670000000546533 035 $a(EBL)3328953 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12412241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11158875 035 $a(PQKB)11487974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3328953 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3328953 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10913570 035 $a(OCoLC)871258291 035 $a(DE-B1597)623384 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781626370807 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000546533 100 $a20140904h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDamascus diary $ean inside account of Hafez Al-Assad's peace diplomacy, 1990-2000 /$fBouthaina Shaaban 210 1$aBoulder, Colorado :$cLynne Rienner Publishers,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (262 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58826-863-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Book Title""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword-Fred H. Lawson""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1-The Road to Madrid""; ""2-Blessed Are the Peacemakers""; ""3-The Rise of Bill Clinton""; ""4-Syriaa???s Honeymoon with Clintona???s America""; ""5-The Deposit That Never Was""; ""6-Rabina???s Assassination and the Long Road to Nowhere""; ""7-The Legacy of Yusuf al-Azma""; ""8-The April Understanding""; ""9-The Not-So-Secret Lauder Talks""; ""10-The Shepherdstown Debacle""; ""11-The Man Who Did Not Sign""; ""Epilogue""; ""Appendix 1: Letter from George H. W. Bush to Hafez al-Assad, May 31, 1991"" 327 $a""Appendix 2: Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, May 27, 1993""""Appendix 3: Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, July 4, 1993""; ""Appendix 4: Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, September 4, 1993""; ""Appendix 5: Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, December 2, 1993""; ""Appendix 6: Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, October 12, 1999""; ""Appendix 7: Minutes of the Telephone Conversation Between Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad, January 18, 2000""; ""Chronologyof Key Events""; ""Cast of Characters""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Book"" 330 $aBouthaina Shaaban worked closely with Syria's president Hafez al-Assad from 1990 until the time of his death, serving as both official interpreter and adviser. Her new book, part memoir and part historical account, takes the reader behind the closed doors of the Syrian Presidential Palace to provide uniquely Syrian perceptions of the failed Arab-Israel peace talks. Sharing firsthand stories of relationships (her own and Assad's) with members of the Bush and Clinton administrations, and drawing on previously unavailable minutes and other documents from the Syrian presidential archives, Shaaban takes us from the early Syrian-US engagement in 1990-1991 to the three Assad-Clinton summits in 1994-2000. In the process, she includes intriguing revelations about the Rabin Deposit, the April Understanding on Lebanon, and the 1998 Track II effort with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bouthaina Shaaban offers the first account of these negotiations to come from a Syrian insider?an essential contribution to our understanding of the enduring conflict in the Middle East. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern$2bisacsh 607 $aSyria$xPolitics and government$y1971-2000 607 $aMiddle East$xPolitics and government 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern. 676 $a956.05/3 700 $aShaaban$b Bouthaina$0698699 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787862403321 996 $aDamascus diary$93837568 997 $aUNINA