Shalman Shaikh

Shaikh Group

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Founder and CEO of the Shaikh Group; former director of the Brookings Doha Center and fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy

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What started as an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become more complicated than ever.

Syria's Civil War Goes Multi-national

What started as an uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become more complicated than ever.

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