Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6:00pm to 7:30pm - in person CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA
The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents
“Understanding Syria's Transition in the Aftermath of the Assad Regime Collapse”
with Omar S. Dahi, Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs
Discussant: Lina Chawaf, Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard Univeristy; CEO of Radio Rozana<https://www.rozana.fm/en>, an independent Syrian media network broadcasting from France about her home country.
Omar S. Dahi is Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs. He has published in academic outlets such as the "Journal of Development Economics and Applied Economics", "Southern Economic Journal", "Political Geography", "Middle East Report", "Forced Migration Review", and "Critical Studies on Security". His last book was "South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence" (co-authored with Firat Demir). Dahi serves as an associate editor of the "Review of Social Economy" as well as the e-zine "Jadaliyya" and has served on the editorial committee of the "Middle East Report". He is a founding member of the Beirut School of Critical Security Studies within the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Dahi has served as a lead expert on the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of West Asia's National Agenda for the Future of Syria program. Dahi was born and raised in Syria and currently lives with his wife and two children in Amherst.
Lina Chawaf, CEO of Radio Rozana<https://www.rozana.fm/en>, an independent Syrian media network broadcasting from France about conflict in her home country with a focus on women’s voices, will research how to support women media leaders who are working in conflict zones while battling gender stereotypes and taboos.
Link: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/understanding-syrias-transition-aftermath-asad-regime-collapse
Contact: Liz Flanagan<mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu>