While for many years scholars and journalists have focused on the more obvious manifestations of political life in the Middle East, one major theme has been con

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) is one of the most enigmatic and active political forces in the Middle East. For observers in the West, the SSNP is r

This book investigates the Muslim castles of greater Syria from c.700 to c.1700 from archaeological and historical perspectives.

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Demystifying Syria offers an extraordinary insight into the shifting relations between the Ba'th party and the armed forces, civil law, social structure, burgeo