Security in Context, alongside Jadaliyya and the Syrian Center for Policy Research, present the second in a series of events under the Syria Research Project (SRP), "Syria in Transition: The First 45 Days."
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 regarding issues of sectarianism, the media, and gender.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 3 pm ET, 10 pm Damascus
FEATURING
Katty Alhayek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Alhayek’s research centers around themes of marginality, media, audiences, gender, intersectionality, and displacement in a transnational context. Alhayek completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States of America with a graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies.
Rabie Nasser is a co-founder and the director of the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR), and researcher at the University of Vienna. He has a MSc in Economics from Leicester University, UK. Before joining SCPR, Nasser worked for the State Planning Commission as Chief Economist and Director of Macroeconomic Directorate. Afterwards, he worked as an Economic Researcher at the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait.
Basileus Zeno is an Assistant Professor in Political Studies at Trent University in Canada. His work has combined research, advocacy and policy work on political violence, digital media, forced migration, security, human rights, religion, cultural heritage, and decolonizing methodologies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2021. His research won best paper awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Studies Association (ISA), and Syrian Studies Association.
Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (both from Stanford University Press, 2012, 2021). Haddad is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine, and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute.
