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" Damascus diary : "
Bouthaina Shaaban.
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BL
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853823
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Shaaban, Bouthaina
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Damascus diary : : an inside account of Hafez Al-Assad's peace diplomacy, 1990-2000 /\ Bouthaina Shaaban.
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Boulder :: Lynne Rienner Publishers,, [2013]
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, ©2013
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1 online resource (xiv, 245 pages) :: illustrations
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162637080X
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: 9781626370807
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1588268632
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9781588268631
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index.
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| Contents
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The road to Madrid -- Blessed are the peacemakers -- The rise of Bill Clinton -- Syria's honeymoon with Clinton's America -- The deposit that never was -- Rabin's assassination and the long road to nowhere -- The legacy of Yusuf al-Azma -- The April understanding -- The not-so-secret Lauder talks -- The Shepherdstown debacle -- The man who did not sign.
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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.
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Assad, Hafez,1930-2000.
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Assad, Hafez,1930-2000.
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HISTORY-- Middle East-- General.
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Politics and government.
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Middle East, Politics and government.
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Syria, Politics and government, 1971-2000.
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Middle East.
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Syria.
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956.05/3
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DS98.4.S53 2013eb
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