The crime of writing
Subtitle: narratives and shared meanings in criminal cases in Baathist Syria
By: Zouhair Ghazzal
Series: Contemporain publications -- 38; Contemporain publications -- 38.
Publisher: Institut français du Proche-Orient
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Beyrouth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9782351597101
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Political crimes and offenses; Investigation; History; Subversive activities; Prisoners; Legal status, laws
Description: Zouhair presents a unique portrait of Syrian society through the workings of its criminal records in the three decades prior to the outbreak of the civil war in 2011. Based on actual crime files from Aleppo and Idlib, in addition to extensive interviews with criminal detainees, lawyers, judges, and court experts, this study manages an in-depth account of Syria under the Baathis rule of the two Asad regimes.
Notes: "Ouvrage publié avec le concours du ministère des Affaires étrangères (DGMDP) et du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (UMIFRE 6, USR 3135)."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-558) and index.

Zouhair Ghazzai  has been a Professor of historical and social sciences, Department of History, Loyola University of Chicago from 1992--present. Prior to this appointment, he was the Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, The Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations. Research Project: "The Status of Law vis-à-vis the Power-Relations in the Syrian Cities of the Ottoman Empire" f rom 1991--1992. During 1990 he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, D.C., School of International Service; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University; 1989--1990: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University: 1988--1991: Visiting Researcher, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University; 1986--1988: Assistant Professor, Civilization Sequence (C.S.) Program, American University of Beirut.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of crime; title: What would stand as enough evidence?; title: There is no crime where there is madness; title: Auto-biographies : self and other in confessional criminal narratives; title: The death penalty, torture, and due process; title: The problem with recipiency in honor killings; title: When punishment is left to the judiciary : kin wars between shared meanings and law; title: A danger to society : they must therefore all disappear; title: The place of third parties in land crimes; title: Photoshopping the president : men at work in the age of socialism; title: Le moment de conclure; title: Relevant penal code articles.