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Author: Itamar Rabinovich ,
Carmit Valensi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691242071
ISBN 10: 0691242070
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 December 2022
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Format: Paperback
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Reviews
A smart history. ---Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times A very useful primer on an astonishingly complex history. * Foreign Affairs * Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath makes a bold claim in its very title. It rests on the idea that something fundamentally Syrian has slid into memory, never to return. ---Lazar Berman, Times of Israel Of all the books I've read about the ongoing civil war in Syria, Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath is the best of the lot. . . . . It is concise yet comprehensive, scholarly yet accessible. ---Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel Syrian Requiem is an original and valuable addition to the literature on the Syrian civil war, and is likely to become one of the early standard texts on this subject, specifically with regard to its cogent examination of the diplomatic, strategic, and high policy elements of the war's trajectory. ---Jonathan Spyer, Tel Aviv Review of Books A valuable book for students of geopolitics and the ever turbulent Middle East. * Kirkus Reviews * Important and impressive. . . . [Syrian Requiem] is an indispensable book for anyone wishing to understand one of the most tragic civil wars in the Middle East. * Survival *
"""A smart history.""---Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times ""A very useful primer on an astonishingly complex history."" * Foreign Affairs * ""Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath makes a bold claim in its very title. It rests on the idea that something fundamentally Syrian has slid into memory, never to return.""---Lazar Berman, Times of Israel ""Of all the books I’ve read about the ongoing civil war in Syria, Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath is the best of the lot. . . . . It is concise yet comprehensive, scholarly yet accessible.""---Sheldon Kirshner, Times of Israel ""Syrian Requiem is an original and valuable addition to the literature on the Syrian civil war, and is likely to become one of the early standard texts on this subject, specifically with regard to its cogent examination of the diplomatic, strategic, and high policy elements of the war’s trajectory.""---Jonathan Spyer, Tel Aviv Review of Books ""A valuable book for students of geopolitics and the ever turbulent Middle East."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""Important and impressive. . . . [Syrian Requiem] is an indispensable book for anyone wishing to understand one of the most tragic civil wars in the Middle East."" * Survival *"
Author Information
Itamar Rabinovich is professor and president emeritus at Tel Aviv University and vice chair of the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. He was Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's chief negotiator with Syria and is a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. His books include Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman and Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 19482003 (Princeton). Twitter @ItamarRabinovi Carmit Valensi is a senior fellow and the director of the Syria research program at the Institute for National Security Studies. Twitter @CarmitValensi
