Damascus Diary : : An Inside Account of Hafez al-Assads Peace Diplomacy, 1990-2000 / / 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 pr...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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