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April, 17, 2011syrian protesters shouts slogans calling for president bashar assad to step down during a protest to express solidarity with syrian people in front of the syrian embassy in. Hinnebusch, two noted middle east scholars, present the first detailed examination of syria s role in the long struggle for an arabisraeli peace. A penetrating, if slanted, biography of longtime syrian ruler asad. This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship.
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