Joseph Sassoon: Neilly Series Lecture

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Joseph Sassoon: Neilly Series Lecture

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2013-04-10

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Joseph Sassoon, the guest speaker for the last of this season's Neilly Series Lectures, is the author of Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime, and The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East.  Sassoon is currently working on a book comparing the authoritarian regimes in the Arab Republics before the revolution. He is also writing on the economic implications of the Arab revolution.

Born in Baghdad, Sassoon completed his doctorate at St Antony’s College, Oxford.  He is currently a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in Political Economy and Economic History of the Arab World, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford.  During the 2012 spring semester, he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford; and in the academic year 2010-11, Sassoon was a Public Policy Scholar at th eWoodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C.

Introduction by Gretchen Helmke, Associate Professor of Political Science and Department Chair.

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Sassoon, Joseph, “Joseph Sassoon: Neilly Series Lecture,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed April 25, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/4851.

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