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Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

Our speakers will evaluate the first three months after the collapse of the Syrian regime on 8 December 2024. They will address domestic and regional matters, inclu..

Amid the fragmented realities that emerged after the collapse of the Baath Party and the Assad regime, celebrations unfolded at Fatih Mosque and later at Saraçhane Square in Istanbul's Fatih district. The soundscape, shouting at the top of their lungs—"Freedom forever, despite you, Assad!" and "..

Our speakers will evaluate the first 45 days after the collapse of the Syrian regime on 8 December 2024. They will address domestic and regional matters, including the circumstances that resulted in the unforeseen collapse, the pattern of recruitment and control that followed, and challenges reg..

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.

The swift collapse of the Syrian regime took everyone by surprise, after 54 years of rule and a prolonged

The fall of the Assad family’s 50-year regime in Syria brings with it “many more questions than answers,” says Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad. While the regional and global implications are “not good,” as Israel in particular is celebrating the loss of Asad’s material support for the Le..

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..

On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that three days earlier, on 5 January, Turkish security forces in Gaziantep had stop..

A big question! One of the main motivations was as a process of healing for myself. I am British Iraqi and have lived alongside PTSD for many years. Conflict in Iraq has been a long-term source of sadness and trauma for me, as is true for many Iraqis.

I started my research in anthropology around the time the Arab revolutions began. I was then researching alternative politics and decolonial thought and practices. Something radically new and different seemed to be happening in Syria with the emergence of new f..

On 26 April 2023, Marwan Charbel, former Interior Minister of Lebanon, appeared on TeleLiban, a government-owned public television network, to comment on the “frighteningly high” birth rates of displaced Syrians living in Lebanon. Quoting “recent statistics,” Charbel claimed that out of..

Historians are of course a product of historical circumstances, and I am no different. I conceived of, researched, and wrote this book in the shadow of the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Arab Spring and Gezi Park protests. I wanted to think about ..

Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aesthetics, Practices is the first edited volume of peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and cross-regional essays that attends to the intricacies of Middle Eastern scripted television. The project began as a Soc..

During the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Jadaliyya Syria Page Co-Editor Basileus Zeno received the Best 2022 APSA Paper award from the MENA Politics Section. The award recognizes the best paper presented at the previous meeting. Zeno was selected for his pape..

In 2014 the Syrian conflict appeared to be spinning out of control. Reaching new levels of horror and suffering that inflicted death, displacement, and destruction on a massive scale within Syria, it had also developed into a full-fledged regional proxy war. With the Islamic State movement’s pro..