Analysis: Bashar al-Assad’s Unlikely Comeback
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Bente Scheller is head of the Middle East and North Africa division at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. From 2012 to 2019, she was the director of the foundation's Middle East office in Beirut and from 2002 to 2004 she worked at the German Embassy in Damascus. She is the author of The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy Under the Assads.
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