List of contributors
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Myriam Ababsa
1Geographer and urban planner, associate researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo Amman), the Géographie-Cités laboratory, and the CAREP Paris. A graduate of the École normale supérieure Fontenay-Saint Cloud, she obtained her PhD in 2004 from the University of Tours (Raqqa, territoires et pratiques sociales d’une ville syrienne, Ifpo, 2009). Myriam Ababsa is the author of Amman, de pierre et de paix (Autrement, 2007). Together with Rami Daher, she co-edited Villes, pratiques urbaines et construction nationale en Jordanie (Ifpo, 2011); with Éric Denis and Baudouin Dupret, Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (American University in Cairo Press, 2012); and the Atlas of Jordan: History, Territories and Society (Ifpo, 2013). Her most recent book, co-authored with Norig Neveu and Falestin Naïli, is: Amman Social History through Photography (Ifpo, 2025). She is a member of the scientific council of Mondes Arabes (CNRS, Collège de France) since 2022.
myriam.ababsa@gmail.com
Julie Bernath
2Dr. Julie Bernath is a political scientist and senior researcher at Swisspeace and the University of Basel. Her research focuses on transitional justice; diaspora mobilisation and victim participation; and the politics of international interventions in “(post)-conflict” contexts —in particular in the Cambodian and Syrian contexts. She is the author of the book The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Power, Politics and Resistance in Transitional Justice (2023, The University of Wisconsin Press). Julie has been co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) since 2015. From June 2018 until January 2021, she was a visiting post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Conflict Studies of the Philipps University of Marburg and the Issam Fares Institute of the American University of Beirut. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Basel.
julie.bernath@swisspeace.ch
Joseph Daher
3Joseph Daher teaches at the University of Lausanne and co-leads the research project “Syrian Trajectories: Challenges and Opportunities for Peacebuilding” at the European University Institute in Florence. He is the author of Le Hezbollah, un fondamentalisme religieux à l’épreuve du néolibéralisme (Syllepse, 2019) and Syrie, le martyre d’une révolution (Syllepse, 2022).
Leïla Drif
4Leïla Drif holds a PhD from EHESS/IRIS in Paris. She is affiliated with Ifpo Beirut and is a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations. Her doctoral research in anthropology focused on the reception dynamics of Syrian refugees in Beirut, examining how these interactions generate alternative forms of protection at the residential scale of refuge. Her work lies at the intersection of urban anthropology, development studies, sociology of law, and forced migration.
leiladrif@gmail.com
Mathilde Gingembre
5Dr. Mathilde Gingembre is a researcher in political ecology, affiliated with the PASTRES research project (University of Sussex, UK/European University Institute, Italy). She specialises in resource politics, environmental justice, land rights, extractivism, agrarian livelihoods and forced exile, and has expertise on Madagascar, Jordan and Lebanon.mathilde.
gingembre@gmail.com
Yassin al-Haj Saleh
6Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian political dissident and writer. Born in Raqqa in 1961, he joined the Syrian Communist Party Political Bureau at a young age, while studying medicine in Aleppo. He was arrested in 1980 and was sentenced to fifteen years but stayed in jail for sixteen years. Married to Samira Khalil, an activist and former political prisoner herself, Yassin cooperated with a group of activists including the lawyer Razan Zaytouna, one of the most prominent figures of the revolution. Razan along with Samira and two of their colleagues, were abducted in Dūma in December 2013. The fate of “Dūma four” is still unknown. Yassin al-Haj Saleh is the author of nine books and hundred papers in the online journal alJumhuriya.net, of which he is a founding member.
yassinhs@gmail.com
Charlotte al-Khalili
7Charlotte al-Khalili is a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her work focuses on revolutionary politics and subjectivities, as well as religious temporalities and practices in Syria and Turkey. Her research explores the effects of the 2011 revolution and its aftermath on displaced Syrians’ lifeworlds, and examines Syrians’ evolving understandings, imaginations and conceptualisations of revolution and displacement. She is the author of the monograph Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian Displacement, Time and Subjectivity (UCL, 2023) and co-editor of the Revolution Beyond the Event (UCL, 2023).
C.M.D.Al-Khalili@sussex.ac.uk
Salam Kawakibi
8Political scientist Salam Kawakibi is the director of CAREP Paris and formerly served as deputy director of the Arab Reform Initiative. He holds postgraduate degrees in economics, international relations, and political science from the universities of Aleppo and Aix-en-Provence. From 2009 to 2011, he was a senior researcher at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Between 2000 and 2006, he was director of the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Aleppo. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Foundation Assembly of Citizens of the Mediterranean (FACM), and a board member of “The Day After”, an organisation working toward a democratic Syria. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the organisation Ettijahat – Independent Culture.
salam.kawakibi@carep-paris.org
Valentina Napolitano
9Sociologist, research fellow at IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) and associate researcher at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, her work focuses on forced migration, political violence, and collective action in the Middle East (Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon). After studying political mobilisation within Palestinian refugee camps in Damascus, her current research explores the transformations of the Syrian family sphere in the context of war and forced displacement. Among her recent publications: “Donner sens et cohérence à la désertion en contexte de guerre : les émotions d’ex-militaires syriens”, Critique internationale 91/2 (2021), pp. 67–87; with Jalal al-Husseini, “La politique jordanienne à l’égard des réfugiés syriens : entre hospitalité et protection des intérêts nationaux”, Confluences Méditerranée 110/3 (2019), pp. 127–142.
valentina.napolitano@ird.fr
Élizabeth Picard
10Élizabeth Picard is an emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (IREMAM). A political scientist and Arabist, she has worked on collective identities and political mobilisations in the Middle East, particularly in the context of regional and civil wars. Her most recent book is Liban-Syrie, intimes étrangers. Un siècle d’interactions sociopolitiques, Arles, Sindbad, Actes Sud, 2016.
elizabethpicard@yahoo.com
Anna Poujeau
11Anthropologist and research fellow at the CNRS, currently based at Ifpo Beirut, Anna Poujeau has studied the internal structuring of Christian communities in Syria and their relationship with power during the 2000s. In 2014, she published Des monastères en partage. Sainteté et pouvoir chez les chrétiens de Syrie with the Société d’ethnologie. Since the onset of the revolution and war in Syria, her research has focused on the transformations of social and political community dynamics, particularly the collective kidnappings of minority members by Islamist and jihadist organisations.
anna_poujeau@hotmail.com
Matthieu Rey
12Matthieu Rey holds a Ph.D. on the parliamentary system in Iraq and Syria during the fifties. He conducted long-term fieldwork between 2009 and 2013 in Syria. He then expanded his research interests to state-building, cold war, policies of development. As witness and scholar, he also provided insight on the current uprising. He published Histoire de la Syrie (xixe‑xxie siècle) (Fayard, 2018) and more recently, When the Parliaments Ruled in the Middle East (AUC Press, 2022). He is currently director of the contemporary studies department at Ifpo (Beirut) and associate researcher at Wits History Workshop.
m.rey@ifporient.org
Aurora Sottimano
13Dr. Aurora Sottimano is a political scientist who specialises in the politics and regional relations of the Middle East, with a focus on Syria. Her research focuses on authoritarian governance, political and economic reform, civil society and mobilisation, and the politics of migration. She is a lecturer at the University of International Studies in Rome (UNINT, Italy), non-resident senior fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies, University of St Andrews (UK), and visiting researcher in the Centre for International Studies, Lisbon University Institute (CEI, ISCTE-IUL Portugal). Her publications include “The Syrian Interim Government” in R. Hinnebusch and J. Gani (eds.), Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict’s Middle Phase (Routledge, 2022), and “Syria in the resistance axis: persistence through reconfiguration?” in L. Matar and A. Kadri (eds.), Syria: From National Independence to Proxy War (Palgrave, 2018).
aurora.sottimano@gmail.com
Sana Yazigi
14A graphic designer, Sana Yazigi graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus in 1993. She was the founder of The Cultural Diary, the first bilingual cultural agenda in Syria, which covered the cultural life of Damascus and other major Syrian cities from 2007 until her departure for Beirut in 2012. In Lebanon, she launched the ALWAN initiative, which offered art therapy workshops for refugee children and psychological support sessions for adults. In May 2013, she founded Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution, an open-access platform that documents and archives, in three languages, the cultural and artistic output generated during the Syrian revolution and war, as well as subsequent creations from within Syria and the diaspora: <https://creativememory.org/fr/archives>.
sanayazigi1@gmail.com
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