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On a Tuesday afternoon a quarter of a century ago, as the world entered its new era, I was at home catching up on sleep between nightshifts at BBC TV Centre. Downstairs, my wife's routine of watching an episode of Diagnosis Murder before the school pick-u
I started graduate school after living in Oman from 2010 to 2011, when I witnessed a remarkable popular uprising crushed by military force. As I immersed myself in the historiography of the Arabian Peninsula, I found that most works focused on state or im
The impetus for this book grew out of the revolutionary moment of 2011. In the summer of 2011, I was slated to begin preliminary research in Damascus for a dissertation project on another topic. Due to the growing protests in Syria, and out of safety conc