Many developments during the past year have given rise to a host of crucial questions about the future of Syria…
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The Question of Return
Rana B. Khoury, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [1] For more than a decade, most Syrian refugees have not reached…
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Rifaie Tammas & Marika Sosnowski, University of Melbourne Everything important that happens happens inside our minds. André Dao (2023)…
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Salma Daoudi, University of Oxford Introduction The fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 constituted a critical historical…
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Sarah Bassisseh, Ronja Herrschner, Chonlawit Sirikupt, and Marcia Ponzlet – Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen “Justice should serve all victims…
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Yassmine Tlass, University of Kent Introduction The collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 presents both a historic…
Continue ReadingDecentralization in post-Assad Syria: a façade or bottom-up local governance?
Tiina Hyyppä, University of Helsinki Introduction Local governance in Syria under the regimes of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad was…
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Sean Lee, The American University in Cairo Until the December 2024 push by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied…
Continue ReadingBetween Stability and Violence: Tribal Authority in Syria’s Transitional Order
Haian Dukhan, Teesside University Introduction The collapse of the Assad regime in December 2024 marked the end of more…
Continue ReadingThe Center Beckons: Performance, Autonomy, and the “Postwar” State in Syria
Ali Hamdan, University of Amsterdam Introduction In July 2025 a series of violent clashes engulfed Syria’s southern province of…
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