Azmi Bishara

Syria 2011-2013 (eBook, PDF)

Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem

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Produktbeschreibung

Azmi Bishara's book on the Syrian Revolution is one of the most comprehensive and profound works on the subject published to date. Translated here into English for the first time, the study examines the complex roots of Syria's political and sectarian conflicts from the day revolution erupted on 15th March 2011 to its descent into civil war in the two years that followed. The book unearths and discusses the very first signs of protests from across Daraa, Hama, Aleppo, Damascus, Raqqa, Deir El Zour, Edlib and Homs, and it deals with Syria's ruralization process and the subsequent economic 'liberalization', which eventually led to the revolt against the Baath party. The work is based on high-level interviews, analysis of the country's socio-economic background, and examination of the Syrian regime's strategy and its political and media discourse.

Syria's revolution is chronicled in two stages: the peaceful civil stage and the armed stage. Bishara's analysis first centres on the regime's strategy, unveiling despotism, massacres, kidnapping, sectarian tendencies, jihadist violence, the emergence of warlords, and the chaotic spread of arms. He then turns to the role of the opposition to narrate in detail the events that broke out and exactly how a peaceful protest turned into an armed struggle. The book provides a roadmap to how revolution broke out and is a comprehensive analysis of what drove those early events. Its publication brings renowned Arabic-language scholarship to the English-speaking world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755645435
• Artikelnr.: 66380989

Autorenporträt

Azmi Bishara is one of the most prominent scholars in the Arab world, known for his work on global issues and those pertaining to the Arab region in particular. As a public intellectual, Bishara is one of the most influential critics of authoritarianism and colonialism and a staunch supporter of democratic transition in the region. His most prominent publications include Civil Society: A
Critical Contribution; The Arab Question; Religion and Secularism in a Historical Context in 3 vols.; Sectarianism Without Sects; Answering the Question What is Salafism; and The Transition to Democracy and its Problematique: a Theoretical and Applied Comparative Study.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: The Bitter Harvest: Ten Years of Bashar al-Assad's
Rule Chapter 2: From Spark to Fire Chapter 3: Protests in the Main Squares
Chapter 4: Masses in the Cities: A Revolutionary Movement in Damascus and
Aleppo Chapter 5: An Armed Revolution Chapter 6: The Regime's Strategy
Chapter 7: Ruralization of the Party and Sectarianization of the Army: The
Origins of Sectarian Discourse and Violence Chapter 8: Sectarian Violence
Unleashed Chapter 9: Violence: Between Revolutionary Violence and Remnants
from Previous Eras Chapter 10: The Opposition Chapter 11: New Actors
Chapter 12: Initiatives for a Political Solution and the International
Positions Chapter 13: The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Syria's
Macroeconomy Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4
Appendix 5