Romanticizing masculinity in Baathist Syria
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Bashar al-Assad
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civic activism
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forthcoming
Michael Aflaq
muscular nationalism
patriotic songs
postcolonialism
Romantic nationalism
Sati al-Husri
Syrian civil war
Zaki al-Arsuzi
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- ISBN 9781526198044
- Weight: 322g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides a novel analysis of the conceptual sources and ideological contours of the Assad regime. The book documents the Baathists’ fascination with Romanticized and 'muscular' ideas of the nation that emerged in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European social philosophy, and traces the implementation and impacts of these ideologies in the Syrian context. Emphasising the emergence of new forms of public gendered identity in Syria as a unifying feature of nationalism bound closely with the stability of the regime, the book shows how Romantic, muscular nationalism first rose to hegemony and then was shattered by its inherent violence, contradictions and inequalities. The final chapter closes by considering how a new vision of pluralism and civic belonging is today challenging the Romanticized Baathist ideal in contention for Syria’s future.
Rahaf Aldoughli is a lecturer in Middle East and North African Studies at Lancaster University.
