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Pity the nation: Assessing a half century of Assadist rule MENASource by Steven Heydemann Kinana al-Bunni, 37, a female taxi driver, exercises in Damascus, Syria October 3, 2020. Pictures of Syria s president Bashar al-Assad and his father late former president Hafez al-Assad, are seen in the background. Picture taken October 3, 2020. REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar Fifty years ago, on November 13, 1970, Hafez al-Assad seized power from rival factions of the ruling Baath Party. Dubbed the “corrective revolution” by his new regime, Assad’s coup d’état represented the defeat of a leftist faction and the ascent of party moderates. Yet few imagined at the time that this seizure of power by a disgruntled officer one of a long string of similar coups in a country notorious for its instability would mark the beginnings of the longest period of continuous family rule in Syria’s modern history.

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