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Syria and the Assad Family: The History Behind Bashar al-Assad’s Rise to Power and the Civil War by Charles River Editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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\*Includes pictures. \*Includes excerpts of interviews done by the Assad family. \*Explains the history of the Alawites and the Ba'ath Party, as well as Hafez al-Assad's presidency. \*Includes a bibliography for further reading. \*Includes a table of contents. “I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria." – Bashar al-Assad, 2012 In early 2011, a political movement swept across the Arabic speaking world that toppled despotic regimes and dictatorships. The political movement, which became known as the “Arab Spring,” was popular in nature and made use of the internet, particularly social networking websites, to remove dictators such as Ben Ali of Tunisia, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, and Muammar Qadaffi of Libya. Those dictators, who ruled their countries for decades, were unable to stem the tide of popular indignation against them even though they tried using force and propaganda in ways reminiscent of the Cold War era. While some of these dictators bowed to the political pressure and others were pushed out by force through civil wars, the events of the Arab Spring have come to
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- Author
- Charles River Editors
- Publisher
- Charles River Editors
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction