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Mar 2025
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The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warne...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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On Friday 21 February 2025, Professor Johannes Waardenburg gave the Middle East Centre’s Friday seminar Biography: Professor JST Waardenburg teaches the general history of the Arab world at the IULM in Milan. As a historian, he specialises in the period of the Ba‘th party in power in 20th century Syria. In 2021 he published two volumes with the Nallino Ins ... Show More
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