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Research Assistant Fellow, Middle East Studies Center- Jordan
1. Book
- Alam, M., & Ashwarya, S. “Arab Spring and Its Legacies”. Taylor & Francis Group. (2024).
- Balanche, F. “Sectarianism in Syria's civil war”. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. (2018)
- Balanche, F. “Sectarianism in Syria's civil war”. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. (2018).
- Braund, S. M. (Ed.). “Civil War. Oxford University Press”. USA. (1999).
- Humud, C. E., Nikitin, M. B. D., & Blanchard, C. M. “Armed conflict in Syria: Overview and US response”. Congressional Research Service. (2014)
- Ismail, S. (2018). “The rule of violence: Subjectivity, memory and government in Syria (Vol. 50)”. Cambridge University Press.
- Jenkins, B. M.” The role of terrorism and terror in Syria's civil war”. RAND Corporation. (2013).
- Kahl, C. H., Goldenberg, I., & Heras, N. A. “A strategy for ending the Syrian civil war”. Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security. (2017).
- Lynch, M., Freelon, D., & Aday, S. “Syria's socially mediated civil war”. Universitäts-und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt. (2014).
- Phillips, C. “The battle for Syria: International rivalry in the new Middle East”. Yale University Press. (2020).
- Van Dam, N. “Destroying a nation: The civil war in Syria”. Bloomsbury Publishing. (2017).
- Wimmen, H., “Syria's Path from Civic Uprising to Civil War”. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (2016).
2. Articles
- Ahmed, S. S., & Shahabuddin, S.” Syrian Civil War in International Perspective”. Pakistan Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 2 NO.1. (2019).
- Akbar, A.” Iran’s soft power in Syria after the Syrian civil war”. Mediterranean Politics, Vol.28 No.2 (2023), pp 227-249.
- Akhmedov, V. M. “The Syrian revolution. In Handbook of revolutions in the 21st century: The new waves of revolutions, and the causes and effects of disruptive political change”. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2022). pp. 707-723.
- Ali, Z., Zaman, Z., & Mustafa, G. “Iran-Syria Relations During the Syrian Civil War (2010-2024)”. Dialogue Social Science Review (DSSR), Vo. 3 No. 1 (2025), pp 579-596.
- Al-Khalili, C. “Towards an Anthropology of Defeat: Rethinking the Aftermath of the Syrian Revolution”. (2022).
- Alkopher, T. D., & Barak, N. “Humanitarian Public Diplomacy in Comparative Perspective: The 2015 Refugee Crisis (2015-2021), the Syrian Civil War (2011-2022) and the 2015 Nepal Earthquake”. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Vol.19 No.2 (2023), pp 271-306.
- Bachmann, S. D., & Jones, M.” Syria–a hybrid war case study”. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies. (2021).
- Barakat, S.” Intervention and Reconstruction in Syria”. In Russia's Approach to Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The History, Context, and its effect on Ukraine. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2023). pp. 121-144.
- Belkania, B” Saving President Assad: Russian Impact on the Eruption of the Syrian Civil War”. (2020).
- Carpenter, T. G.” Tangled web: The Syrian civil war and its implications”. Mediterranean Quarterly, Vol. 24 No.1 (2013), pp 1- 11.
- Chapman, G., Elbahtimy, H., & Martin, S. B. “The future of chemical weapons: Implications from the Syrian civil war”. Security Studies, Vol.27 No. 4, pp 704-733.
- Haidostian, T. “The Impact of the Syrian Civil War on its Education Sector”. Pepperdine Policy Review, Vol.16 No.1 (2024), p.p 3.
- Hajjar, L “Before and After the Arab Uprisings ”. SAGE Publications. Vol. 50, No. 1 (2024). , pp. 171-175.
- Hof, F. C., & Simon, A. “Sectarian violence in Syria’s Civil War: Causes, consequences, and recommendations for mitigation”. The Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2013).
- Hokayem, E. “Iran, the Gulf States and the Syrian civil war”. Survival, Vol.56 No.6. (2014), pp 59-86.
- Kešeljević, A., & Spruk, R. “Estimating the effects of Syrian civil war”. Empirical Economics, Vol.66 No. 2 (2024), p.p 671-703.
- Koca, B. T.” Deconstructing Turkey’s “open door” policy towards refugees from Syria”. Migration Letters, Vol. 12 No. 3 (2015), p.p 209-225.
- Lichtenheld, A. G., & Schon, J. “The consequences of internal displacement on civil war violence: evidence from Syria”. Political Geography, Vol. 86, (2021).
- Luna, S., & Zoltan, S.” The Rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”. AARMS–Academic and Applied Research in Military and Public Management Science, Vol. 14 No. 4. (2015), p.p 363-378.
- Lundgren, M., Svensson, I., & Karakus, D. C. “Local ceasefires and de-escalation: Evidence from the Syrian Civil War”. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol.67 No 7-8. (2023), pp 1350-1375.
- Lynch, M., Freelon, D., & Aday, S. “Syria in the Arab Spring: The integration of Syria’s conflict with the Arab uprisings, 2011–2013”. Research & Politics, Vol.1 No. 3 (2014).
- Marchese, N. “Syrian Revolution and Its Impact on US Foreign Policy”. Open Journal for Studies in History, Vol.7 No. 1 (2024).
- Moniz Bandeira, L. A., & Moniz Bandeira, L. A. “The Uprising in Syria. The Second Cold War: Geopolitics and the Strategic Dimensions of the USA, (2017). pp 239-253.
- Muzzall, E., Perlman, B., Rubenstein, L. S., & Haar, R. J. “Overview of attacks against civilian infrastructure during the Syrian civil war”, 2012–2018. BMJ global health, Vol. 6 No. 10 (2021).
- Phillips, C. “The international system and the Syrian civil war”. International Relations, Vol. 36 No. 3 (2022). pp 358-381.
- Robinson, G. E. “Syria's long civil war”. Current History, Vol. 111 No. 749 (2012), pp 331-336.
- Saleem, Z. B., Khan, I., & Khurshid, Z. “The Fall of Bashar al-Assad: Implications for Syria and the Broader Middle East”. Dialogue Social Science Review (DSSR), Vol.2 No. 5 (2024), pp 752-764.
- Schulhofer-Wohl, J.” On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria”. Rationality and Society, Vo.32 No. 4 (2020), pp 402-460.
- Sharara, S. L., & Kanj, S. S. “War and infectious diseases: challenges of the Syrian civil war”. PLoS pathogens, Vol. 10 No.11 (2014).
- Zisser, E. “Syria–from the six-day war to the Syrian civil war”. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 44 No. 4 (2017), pp 545-558.
- Żuber, M., & Moussa, S. S. “Arab spring as a background of civil war in Syria”. In International Conference Knowledge-Based Organization Vol. 24, No. 1(2018), pp. 245-251).
3. Reports
- CFR Editors “Syria’s Civil War: The Descent Into Horror” Council on Foreign Relations. 20.12.2024 at: https://www.cfr.org/article/syrias-civil-war
- Chughtai, Alia. “Syria’s war: Ten years – and counting” Al Jazeera. 15.03.2021 at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/syria-ten-years-of-war
- Daoudy, Marwa. “The Syrian Revolution: A Story of Politics, not Climate Change” The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. 22.03.2022 at: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/syrian-revolution-story-politics-not-climate-change
- Grace Guerrero, Dorothy. “Syria: The Continuing Revolution and the Urgent Need for Peace” CETRI. 18.11.2013 at: https://www.cetri.be/Syria-The-Continuing-Revolution?lang=fr
- Kent, Lauren. Tanno, Sophie and Edwards, Christian. “What’s happening in Syria? A simple guide”. CNN. 05.12.2024 at: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/30/middleeast/syrian-civil-war-reignited-explainer-intl/index.html
- Kingsley, Patrick. “Revolutions Swept the Middle East in 2011. Will Syria’s End Differently?” The New York Times. 09.12.2024 at: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/world/middleeast/syria-revolutions-middle-east.html
- Paris, Gilles. “Syria and the inevitability of failed transitions in Arab Spring countries” Le Monde. 31.12.2024 at: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/12/31/syria-and-the-inevitability-of-failed-transitions-in-arab-spring-countries_6736601_23.html
- Sanders, Tabitha. “The cradle of Syria's revolution: Daraa ten years on” The New Arab. 23.03.2021 at: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/cradle-syrias-revolution-daraa-ten-years
- Sayigh, Yezid. “Syria’s Age of Revolution: Peaceful Protest to Armed Struggle” The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 13.01.2014 at: https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2014/01/syrias-age-of-revolution-peaceful-protest-to-armed-struggle?lang=en
- Yacoubian, Mona. “Syria Timeline: Since the Uprising Against Assad” The United States Institute of Peace. 01.01.2021 at: https://www.usip.org/syria-timeline-uprising-against-assad
4. Dissertations
- Abulebada, N. "Repress or Defect: Military Defections in Syria in 1982 and 2011" master’s thesis. The American University in Cairo (Egypt). (2023).
- Berjaoui, M. M. “The ideational and material factors of Hezbollah’s foreign policy: the case studies of Syria and Iraq 2003-2017”. Doctoral dissertation. The University of St Andrews. (2024).
- Goodwin, S. R. “From Uprising to Impasse: Unraveling the Assad Regime’s Stalemate In Idlib Province”. Doctoral dissertation. Johns Hopkins University. (2024).
- Hancı, F., “Change in Strategic Culture of Violent Non-State Actors: The Case of Hts in Syria”. Master's thesis. Marmara Universitesi (Turkey), (2024).
- Khalaf, R. “Local Governance at the Intersection of Peace and State Formation in Syria: The Case of Al-Raqqa's Revolution-Induced Areas of Limited Statehood (2011-2022)” Doctoral dissertation, The University of Manchester (United Kingdom). (2024).
- Khidhir, Z. M. “The Changing Dynamics of the Perception of US Foreign Policy towards Kurds in Syria: Developing Relations in Light of Ignorance, Cooperation and Desertion (2011-2020)”. Doctoral dissertation, Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem. (2024).
- Nori Al-Basre, M. K. “The Russian role in the Middle East (Syria) 2013-2020= Rusya'nın Ortadoğu'daki rolü (Suriye) 2013-2020”. Master's thesis, Sakarya Üniversitesi. (2023).
- OZTURK, S. “Between Continuity and Change: Turkey's Middle East Policy Reassessment in the Wake of the Syrian Crisis.
- Pişkin Önal, G. “Deconstructing Syrian and Yemeni Civil Wars Through a Post-Colonial Lense”. Master's thesis, İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi. (2024).
- Sundvik, S. “Russian political communications in the context of the Syrian civil war”. (2024).
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