Early next month, the country is scheduled to hold its first parliamentary elections since the fall of Assad. But the conditions that have long stifled democracy in the Arab world remain firmly in place.
Hicham Bou Nassif
Hicham Bou Nassif, author of Endgames: Military Response to Protest in Arab Autocracies, is the Weinberg Associate Professor of International Relations and the Middle East and the George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College. He is working on a book about Ronald Reagan’s policy toward the Middle East. Before earning his PhD in political science, he was a reporter in Lebanon. Find him on X @Hbounassif.
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