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April 17, 2014 | Martin Kramer
About the author: Martin Kramer is a historian at Tel Aviv University and the Walter P. Stern fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as founding president at Shalem College in Jerusalem.

The career of Patrick Seale, for decades the most important foreign apologist for the Assad family, offers a useful study in how dictatorial regimes spread propaganda. 

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