hi everyone your reading for sunday is below. you only have to present the four chapters by Heydemann. I will discuss Ayubi, and we will leave reading #4 (which i took out of the list below) until Friday. feel free to use the comments section below to discuss anything, including claiming chapters to present. we agreed that we will have a discussion instead of presentations on Sunday see you soon. b Week 4: Post-Colonial Development and State Formation in Syria 1. Nazih Ayubi, “The Middle East and the State Debate: A Conceptual Framework,” in Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: I. B. Tauris, 1995), pp. 1-24. [PDF] 2. Developmental Chart (1940s to 2012). [PDF] 3. Steven Heydemann, Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict (1946-970), [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] (Read Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. Note that the hyperlinked numbers above do not correspond to chapters, but to 5 parts of the book. Search for chapters within).
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Lauren Shellito
2/3/2013 04:07:22 am
Turkish FM slams Assad for not responding to Israeli strike: http://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-fm-slams-assad-for-not-responding-to-israeli-strike/?fb_action_ids=10151397203273076&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
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Nina Brekelmans
2/3/2013 09:30:02 am
Hi everyone,
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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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