Bassam Haddad

George Mason University

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Director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University and author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience

 

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Syria's Bashar al-Assad has called for elections, even as his army continues to bombard residential neighborhoods the Assad government calls "havens for terrorists" inspired by foreign…

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