Patrick Seale, the eminent Middle East journalist, historian and scholar, has died in London at the age of 83. He wrote and broadcast on the Middle East for five decades and was the author (among other books) of a remarkable trilogy: The Struggle for Syria (1965), The Struggle for the Middle East (1988) on the Hafez al-Assad leadership, and The Struggle for Arab Independence (2010), a biography of Lebanon’s first post-Independence prime minister, Riad el-Solh. Seale was above all known for his intimate knowledge of #Syria. He wrote this article for Le Monde diplomatique in 2011, analysing the Assad dynasty and its likely response to Syria’s uprising as the violence took hold.
▻http://mondediplo.com/2011/05/02syria
« Fatal aveuglement de la famille Al-Assad en Syrie »
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/05/SEALE/20483