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Failing The Masses: Buthaina Shabaan And The Public Intellectual Crisis, Asaad Al-Saleh
Failing The Masses: Buthaina Shabaan And The Public Intellectual Crisis, Asaad Al-Saleh
Journal of International Women's Studies
This article discusses the problematic and double-sided role of the public intellectual in the Syrian revolution, which started on March 15, 2011 and is still unfolding. When recently challenged by Syrians, the regime enforced its control by carrying out military operations against its own citizens, not without endorsement by a large portion of the population. The article follows the case of Buthaina Shabaan (b.1953-), the writer, professor, and advocate of the Syrian regime. While spurring the populace to embrace the possibility of democratic reform, this female intellectual has accepted—even embraced—the political control employed by an authoritarian one-party regime, which uses …