TY - BOOK AU - Lesch, David W. TI - The new Lion of Damascus : Bashar al-Asad and modern Syria SN - 0300109911 AV - DS98.72.A77.L47 2005 PB - Yale University Press KW - Assad , Bashar , 1965- KW - Syria - Politics and government - 2000- KW - Syria - Presidents - Biography KW - DS N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-276) and index ER -