🔔ICYMI Assad’s Return: Regional Changes and Future Outlook Watch the panel discussion with Sinan Ulgen, Sawsan Abou Zainedin, abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود, Maria Luisa Fantappie, and Armenak. youtube.com/watch?v=jvud4X…

I had the pleasure of moderating a great discussion with four insightful speakers on the rapprochement processes between the Syrian regime in Damascus and key players like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the EU. Check out the full video here: youtube.com/live/jvud4Xp8k…

In honor of International Day for the Victims of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, here is an interview I gave to Armenak Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center on how the #Yazidi people are persecuted because of their identity. #YazidiGenocide Zovighian Public Office zovpub.org/carnegie-yazid…

At Carnegie we've just put out a major report on Syria's border regions, and their impact on regional stability and Syria's future, written by Armenak and kheder khaddour, with the participation of Maha Yahya, Mohanad Hage Ali ~ مهند الحاج علي, and Harith Hasan. carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/…

Usanas Foundation is organising a Panel Discussion titled "Bombs, Beirut and Gaza: Is peace possible?". The panel discussion is scheduled for 24th September 2024 at 05:00 PM IST. Register here - usanasfoundation.com/panel-discussi…

XCEPT researchers Kheder Khaddour and Armenak discuss their recently published paper, “Borders Without a Nation: Syria, Outside Powers, and Open-Ended Instability,” which was the culmination of several years of work on Syria’s borders and internal power situation.

Middle East or West Asia? 🤔 read this informative interview with Dr. Abhinav Pandya where he sheds light on India’s perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict, economic corridors, connectivity projects, and our ME's economic importance for India carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

While war rages in Gaza and Lebanon, how is Syria, another member of the purported Axis of Resistance, faring? What are the Assad regime's calculations, and worries? Armenak picks up the thread at Diwan: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

There r many good commentators on the military & political aspects of the latest Syrian offensives, including at Daraj Media , but this interview w/ Armenak in Diwan is a thorough (one for the uninitiated too) < By Michael Young via @Carnegie_MEC : carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

Spot-on analysis by my colleague Armenak of the backdrop and current state of play in the rapidly evolving Syrian crisis

Timely analysis from Armenak

A helpful Commentary in Diwan via Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center by Armenak as he dissects  the realities in Syria & the region as a consequence of the swift events that started w/ Gaza, then in Lebanon & now in Syria: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

Valuable piece on Syria's civil-military relations by Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ, looking into why the Army may have refused to fight for Assad, highlighting similarities and differences with other Arab authoritarian countries with strong militaries that faced uprisings carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

If you have access, make sure to read this appropriately sobering & accurate reading by Sam Heller | سام هيلر of the challenges facing successful political transition and peaceful outcomes in #Syria How to Hold Syria Together foreignaffairs.com/syria/how-hold… via Foreign Affairs

Robert Templer has considerable expertise in conflict research and practice, and has been following the Syrian conflict closely. Armenak caught up with him for Diwan, and asks him to share his views on a successful post-conflict transition in Syria: carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

In this Diwan blog, Armenak talks to Robert Templer, also co-founder of the Aleppo Project ccnr.ceu.edu/thealeppoproje… , on how Syria can stand on its own feet again - and there r many interesting provisos in this talk too - via Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center : carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/di…

Iran is certainly a major source of regional instability, but it’s Israel that attacked Iran while it was negotiating an agreement that was supposed to enhance regional stability—a negotiation Israel did everything to undermine.

إلى أصدقائنا السوريين/ات، إذا كنتم تستوفون الشروط، أشجعكم على التقدّم لهذه الوظيفة والعمل مع بعثتنا في #سوريا. تأكّدوا من قراءة الشروط جيدًا، وأطيب التمنيات بالتوفيق! 🤞🏻

A sobering reminder of how hard it is for Syrians abroad to rebuild their lives in a wounded homeland. And how little support the returnees actually get from host countries, INGOs, and the Syrian government. By Synaps synaps.network/en/post/Syria-…

Recently concluded an incredible field trip to Jordan that took me to Deir al-Kahf. A tough place, with very hospital people. Our piece 👇with Laith Qerbaa on their econ/envirn challenges, enduring legacy of colonial borders & locals’ ideas to address them carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/…