The arab spring - and winter - in Syria

Global Change, Peace and Security

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 421-426

  Lesch, David W ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80052018985     PISSN: 14781158     EISSN: 14781166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2011.601859     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. David W. Lesch, The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005), 92.
2. For a more extended discussion of the Damascus spring and subsequent events.
3. see ibid., 81-97.
4. See in particular an interview Asad gave to The Wall Street Journal: Jay Solomon and Bill Spindle, 'Syrian Strongman: Time for Reform', January 31, 2011.
5. For instance, see an essay written by Bouthaina Shàban, the Media and Political Advisor to the Office of the President and one of Asad's closet advisors: 'The Real Evils Plaguing the Region', Forward Magazine (Damascus), Issue 48 (February 2011): 16.
6. In the same issue, see also an essay by Sami Moubayed, a leading commentator and analyst in Syria who often reflects regime exhortations, entitled, 'Lesson from Egypt: West is not Best': 4.
7. For text of Asad speech, see syriacomment.com blog at http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?p=8917&print=true (accessed April 2, 2011).
8. Human Rights Watch Report, '"We've Never Seen Such Horror": Crimes against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces', June 1, 2011, http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2011/06/01/we-ve-never-seen-such-horror?print (accessed June 4, 2011).
9. For more on this transition, see David W. Lesch, 'The Evolution of Bashar al-Asad', Middle East Policy XVII, no. 2 (Summer 2010): 70-81.