The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria

Book Author: David W. Lesch
Reviewer: John W. Sutherlin
Reviewer Title: professor, international relations, University of Louisiana-Monroe
Publishing Info: Yale University Press, 2005. 288 pages. $30, hardcover

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