Antonia Dimou, a Middle East Expert, wrote a new Monograph titled: “The Crisis in Syria: Diplomacy, Regional Challenges and Options”, published by the Institute for Security and Defense Analyses based in Athens, Greece. The monograph focuses on the first months of the crisis in Syria (March 2011 till December 2011). Being written in the region as the Syria crisis sparked, flared and spread, this monograph makes no pretence about providing answers to complex issues addressed, thus aiming to increase understanding through a series of conducted interviews with officials, international relations experts from the region, Baathist and Islamic figures as well as Syrian oppositionists.