Hour 2: What caused the Syrian civil war and what might the future hold for the Syrian people and President Bashar al-Assad? We’ll talk this hour with David W. Lesch, professor of Middle East history at Trinity University. He’s just published a new and updated version of his book “Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad” (Yale, Paperback, 2013).
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