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Bashar's Trial By Fire

Thursday, June 16, 2005

Flynt Leverett of the Brookings Institution has just returned from Damascus, where he was observing the Ba'th Party Congress. He’ll give us an update on the current political climate in Syria, and discuss how relations between Syria and Lebanon stand to affect the Middle East and the US. His new book is titled Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial By Fire.

Music: instrumental music 3/03/03 tracks “Wax off/kodo” and “fallout/euphone”


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