hi everyone, for this friday, we should certainly finish the following. i know a couple of you have volunteered, but there's more. and yes, there are three readings in Week 8, #1. (it looks like nina picked up ch 4 from business networks and sally picked up chapter 5). we have this is perhaps among the most crucial readings of the semester, for many readings. please do a close reading. these are our main links! Week 7: Economic Reform, the Private Sector, and State-Business Relations 1. Steven Heydemann, “Introduction,” in Networks of Privilege: The Politics of Economic Reform in the Middle East, ed Steven Heydemann (New York: Palgrave-St. Martin's Press, 2004). [PDF] 2. Bassam Haddad, Chapter 4 in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] Week 8: Economic Liberalization and the Consumption Boom 1. Bassam Haddad, Chapters 5, 6, and 7 in Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience [Text] 2. Bassam Haddad, “Change and Stasis in Syria,” MERIP, (Winter 1999) [PDF]
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Sarah Mousa
3/11/2013 02:41:34 pm
I'll take Bassam's article - Change and Stasis in Syris
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Nina
3/11/2013 11:47:10 pm
I had actually claimed the article and Ch4, as I think I'm behind on presenting and also am trying to get ahead (not to mention feeling a bit bad about jumping on the shortest reading!). Don't want to monopolize Friday's class though so if presenting twice is frowned upon, I will appropriately cede one or the other.
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Sarah Mousa
3/13/2013 02:16:27 am
I've only presented twice so far, so this article would be my third...
Nina
3/14/2013 11:57:49 am
OK, you go ahead then. Sorry about the confusion!
Nazir
3/12/2013 01:55:08 am
Are there any readings left? I'd like to present on something if there are.
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mustafa enes esen
3/13/2013 05:21:13 am
I will take Chapter 6.
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Bassam
3/12/2013 02:15:22 am
hi nazir and all,
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AuthorBassam Haddad is Director of the Middle East Studies Program and teaches in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, and is Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012). Archives
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