Adel Beshara studied Economics at La Trobe University and Political Science at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD in History in 2002 from the University of Melbourne, where he is also a teacher and a Fellow of the Department of History. His previous publications include Syrian Nationalism: An Inquiry in to the Political Thought of Antun Sa'adeh (Bissan 1995); The Politics of Frustration: The Failed Coup of 1961 (Routledge, 2004), Antun Sa'adeh: The Man, His Thought, an Anthology (Ithaca 2009); Outright Assassination: The Trial and Execution of Antun Sa'adeh (Ithaca 2010), and sev...