Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler

Here's Soccer Dad's Middle East Media Sampler for Friday, June 8. 1) What Assad is doing ...In an article, In Defense of Hosni Mubarak, Michael Young describes the nature of Hafez Assad's Syria: If we imagine a continuum of authoritarian systems, they tend to be defined by two extremities. At one extremity are systems where the absolute reference when it comes to the law, or what passes for law