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In this sit down conversation with Bassam Haddad and Sinan Antoon, Talal Asad takes a bird’s eye look at the political landscape since Israel’s genocidal war agains..

Featuring Bassam Haddad on the historical and geopolitical origins of Assad’s rise and fall—and what might happen next. We think through the contradictions: honoring the joy felt by Syrians at Assad’s ouster while simultaneously taking stock of a truly bad geopolitical outcome.

This is an ongoing post featuring analysis on the most recent developments in Syria after the fall of Bashar Asad. Follow Bassam Haddad on Twitter/X @4bassam.

As Syrians celebrate the fall of the Asad regime after more than five decades of iron rule, many are grappling with the enormity of what has happened to their country, with nearly 14 years of war leaving much of the country in ruins, killing over 350,000 people and displacing 14 million more. Me..

From 2004 to 2010, the Canadian government helped support international efforts to restore the marshes of southern Iraq. This unique ecosystem—once among the largest wetlands in the world and home to between 500,000 and 750,000 people—was drained by the Iraqi g..

On 5 December 2022, friends and colleagues gathered at NYU to celebrate Michael Gilsenan and his extraordinary career at an event organized by the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies. Lila Abu Lughod, Talal..

On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Asad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. This is a conversation ..

On 17 July 2000, Bashar al-Asad became president, surviving his father Hafez al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. This is Part 2 of a con..

On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Asad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. This is a conversation ..

On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Assad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades l..

The impetus for the original story was a writing prompt at a workshop led by Randa Abdel Fattah and run by the Palestine Writing Workshop at Tamer Institute in Ramallah. Over several years, the adult story that Nora drafted morphed into a children’s story with ..

[The following compilation and translations was created by Osha al-Mussalami and published on MiddleEastEye.net on 15 December 2016]

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Talking about Syria 

Civil wars generate their own momentum. They go through different phases and produce different leaderships and warlords. The Lebanese civil war makes for a good academic comparison with the current Syrian war in that internal and external a..

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The tension between home and homeland is an ever-present subject that informs the work of many contemporary Palestinian artists. Since the beginning of the uprooting and fragmentation of the Palestinian people by an extended and expanding settler-colonial occupation nearly seventy years ago, the..

The Syrian army’s officer corps has remained intact despite the immense pressure of nearly four years of civil and military conflict, a fact that has prevented the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Asad’s regime. The military housing system is a crucial aspect of this cohesion: it reveals the w..

 [This article is the second in a two-part series on untold stories of Syrian refugee women. Click

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In this discussion, Talal Asad identifies the problematic ways in which the presence of Muslim communities in Western contexts has been characterized in response to outbreaks of violence such as the recent events in Paris. Asad argues that many of the critiques to which Muslims are subjected, na..

Luca Anceschi, Gennaro Gervasio, and Andrea Teti, editors, Informal Power in the Greater Middle East: Hidden Geographies. London and New York: Routledge, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you p..

The revolutionary advance [is] made headway not by its immediate tragic-comic achievements, but on the contrary by the creation of a powerful, united counter-revolution, by the creation of an opponent, by the fighting of which the party of revolt first ripened int..

[The following monthly summaries on developments in Syria were compiled and published by the International Crisis Group..