Rohan Advani is a researcher and PhD student in the sociology department at UCLA, studying the political economy of the Middle East.
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Sowing Scarcity: Syria’s Wheat Regime from Self-Sufficiency to Import-Dependency
In 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that 9.3 million people in Syria were considered to be food insecure, making it one of the ten countries hardest hit by acute food insecurity. The war has stressed the governme..
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A Pit(i)less Blame Game at the Beirut Port of Institutional Corruption
After the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate at the Port of Beirut on August 4, half of the port was completely destroyed and sections of the city adjacent to it have become uninhabitable. The explosion claimed th..