Damascus Diaries
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908531353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highly entertaining first-hand account of life in Damascus in the 1990s.
Author: Peter Clark
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908531353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highly entertaining first-hand account of life in Damascus in the 1990s.
Author: Boaz Shoshan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-11-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 900441326X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary, Boaz Shoshan writes the microhistory of Ibn Ṭawq, a lower middle class clerk who worked in the city ́s legal system on the eve of the Ottoman conquest, based on his unique diary.
Author: Bouthaina Shaaban
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781588268631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bouthaina 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 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.
Author: Layla Al-Zubaidi
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-12-31
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 014312515X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring As revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted calls to action, but what was missing was testimony from on-the-ground participants—which is precisely what Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel have brought together in Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution. These essays and profoundly moving, often harrowing, firsthand accounts span the region from Tunisia to Syria and include contributors ranging from student activists to seasoned journalists—half of whom are women. This unique collection explores just how deeply politics can be held within the personal and highlights the power of writing in a time of revolution.
Author: Soumen Ray
Publisher: Prowess Publishing
Published: 2019-07-30
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1545747180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among all other countries in the West Asia, Syria was the most tranquil one. There was a civil war in its neighbouring country, Lebanon for more than fifteen years. The Palestinians with various militant groups have ben attacking Israel on a continuous basis and the Israeli Defence Force punishing them regularly for their mischievous acts. Iraq on its eastern border, under the worst Arab dictator, was being punished by the international community. On top of these, Syria’s own relations with the mainstream Arab countries in general and, with the West in particular, were frosty. But in Syria the people were leading a normal peaceful life under the leadership of enigmatic President---Hafez al-Assad. The country’s economy was doing well. He ensured that Syria was never in the list of “regime change” of the US and its allies. While there was opposition to his authoritarian rule, it did not affect the social and political fabric of Syria. What went wrong immediately after his death? How his politically novice son and successor, Bashar al-Assad started committing one after another grave mistakes, took self destructive political moves, joined hands with international pariah militant groups to safeguard his position at the cost of Syria and ruined the peaceful oasis? How a secular country where people of different religious faiths living for hundreds of years with perfect harmony and peace, became the hub of militant Islamic fundamentalists and one of the “most dangerous places on the earth”? To provide a perspective to that, I wrote “My Syrian Diary”. I had served as an Indian diplomat in the Middle east for more than a decade. My three years’ tour of duty at the Indian Embassy, Damascus, gave me an excellent opportunity to know the country, its people and the geopolitics of the region.
Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 524
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781626370807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bouthaina 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, Shabaan 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. 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.