In The Syrian Rebellion, Renowned Middle East Scholar Fouad Ajami Chronicles Syria’s Struggle for Freedom
The Syrian Rebellion by Hoover senior fellow Fouad Ajami.
For Immediate Release
Stanford—Hoover Institution Press released The Syrian Rebellion by Hoover senior fellow and prominent Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami. Written as the Syrian people fought for their liberty, The Syrian Rebellion offers
a detailed historical perspective on the current rebellion in Syria.
With his knowledge of Arabic, and command of Arab and Syrian history,
Ajami chronicled the story of a people tyrannized and betrayed. In
this book, Ajami focuses largely on the similarities and differences in
the former dictator Hafez al-Assad and his successor and son, Bashar
al-Assad, and poignantly tells how the Syrian people found the courage
to rise against a regime of cruelty.“An indispensable book that combines Fouad Ajami's deep knowledge about Syria, its neighbors, and its history with his lucid geopolitical analysis rendered in the passionate and elegant writing that makes him one of the world's most interesting thinkers on the politics of the Middle East,” said Moisés Naím, PhD, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former editor in chief of Foreign Policy magazine.
In The Syrian Rebellion, Ajami captures the complex political and cultural history of Syria. He traces President Bashar al-Assad’s rise to power in 2000 following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad, and explains the short-lived hope this transition gave the Syrian people. Ajami details Bashar’s upbringing and educational background, highlighting the succession that Hafez rigged for his son—shedding light on the ways that Bashar’s rule emulates his father’s. Ajami contends that the 2011 rebellion in Syria was inevitable, particularly because it followed suit with events in Egypt—in what is now referred to as the Arab Spring—and that efforts by the Assad regime to quell the protestors only strengthened the resolve of a population tired of oppression. The people of Syria yearn for the political freedom they enjoyed before the Assad years; in their valiant struggle towards this end, Ajami eloquently chronicles their grief and hopes.
Former secretary of state George P. Shultz praised the book as “a compelling narrative, fascinating and deeply educational.”
Fouad Ajami is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the cochair of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. Born and raised in Syria’s neighboring country, Lebanon, Ajami recently traveled to Turkey with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to meet Syrian families living in refugee camps after escaping attacks in Syria and fleeing across the border. To read more about this visit, go to: http://tinyurl.com/c8jv22c. In addition to frequently appearing on BBC, CNN, and NPR, Ajami writes for numerous national publications, including the Wall Street Journal. In 2006, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal, which is inscribed for “his scholarship, which has revealed common threads of hope across lines of geography, religion, and history. With an unclouded eye and a poet’s gift for words, he has broadened and enriched Americans’ understanding of the yearnings, dreams and predicaments of the people of the Middle East.” Ajami has also received numerous other awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Award for public service (2011), the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism (2011), the Bradley Prize (2006), and the MacArthur Fellows Award (1982). His research has charted the road to 9/11, the Iraq war, and the US presence in the Arab-Islamic world.
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