The Syrian rebellion [[electronic resource] /] / Fouad Ajami
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| Autore: |
Ajami Fouad
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| Titolo: |
The Syrian rebellion [[electronic resource] /] / Fouad Ajami
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 956.9104/2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political violence - Syria - History - 21st century |
| Protest movements - Syria - History - 21st century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Syria History Protests, 2011- |
| Syria Politics and government 2000- | |
| Note generali: | "Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order"--Title page verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Syrian rebellion |
| ISBN: | 0-8179-1506-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810668903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; 624.