Damascus Diary : : An Inside Account of Hafez al-Assads Peace Diplomacy, 1990-2000 / / Bouthaina Shaaban.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Shaaban, Bouthaina,
• MitwirkendeR: Lawson, Fred H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 The Road to Madrid --; 2 Blessed Are the Peacemaker --; 3 The Rise of Bill Clinton --; 4 Syria’s Honeymoon with Clinton’s America --; 5 The Deposit That Never Was --; 6 Rabin’s Assassination and the Long Road to Nowhere --; 7 The Legacy of Yusuf al-Azma --; 8 The April Understanding --; 9 The Not-So-Secret Lauder Talks --; 10 The Shepherdstown Debacle --; 11 The Man Who Did Not Sign --; Epilogue --; Appendixes --; APPENDIX 1 Letter from George H. W. Bush to Hafez al-Assad, May 31, 1991 --; APPENDIX 2 Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, May 27, 1993 --; APPENDIX 3 Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, July 4, 1993 --; APPENDIX 4 Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, September 4, 1993 --; APPENDIX 5 Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, December 2, 1993 --; APPENDIX 6 Letter from Bill Clinton to Hafez al-Assad, October 12, 1999 --; APPENDIX 7 Minutes of the Telephone Conversation Between Bill Clinton and Hafez al-Assad, January 18, 2000 --; Chronology of Key Events --; Cast of Characters --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626370807; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626370807
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Bouthaina Shaaban.

Bouthaina Shaaban worked closely with Syria's president Hafez al-Assad from 1990 until the time of his death, serving as both official interpreter and adviser. Her new book, part memoir and part historical account, takes the reader behind the closed doors of the Syrian Presidential Palace to provide uniquely Syrian perceptions of the failed Arab-Israel peace talks. Sharing firsthand stories of relationships (her own and Assad's) with members of the Bush and Clinton administrations, and drawing on previously unavailable minutes and other documents from the Syrian presidential archives, Shaaban takes us from the early Syrian-US engagement in 1990-1991 to the three Assad-Clinton summits in 1994-2000. In the process, she includes intriguing revelations about the Rabin Deposit, the April Understanding on Lebanon, and the 1998 Track II effort with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bouthaina Shaaban offers the first account of these negotiations to come from a Syrian insider—an essential contribution to our understanding of the enduring conflict in the Middle East.