publications

BOOK PROJECT

Margins of Power: Minority Communities in Times of Civil Conflict

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

2024. “How Bashar al-Asad Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the ‘War on Terror.'” International Studies Quarterly, Vol 68, No. 2. 

2024. “Social Classification as a Combat Sport: Some Ethical Concerns in Coding for Identity.” Conflict, Security & Development, 24(6), pp. 757–779.
 

BOOK CHAPTER

2020. “The Evolution of Rojava: Tensions Between Democratic Confederalism and State-Building in Northern Syria.” Michael Gunter, David Romano and Mehmet Gurses (eds.) The Kurds in the Middle East: Enduring Problems and New Dynamics. New York: Lexington Books, pp. 81-98.

OTHER ARTICLES

2025. “Center and Periphery in a post-Assad Syria,” Project on Middle Eastern Political Science. No. 57.

2024. “Less than a State” The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. No. 51.

2024. “Boycotts and Pro-Palestinian Activism.” MENA Politics. Vol 7, No. 1.

2022. “One State, Two Regimes: Subnational Authoritarianism in Israel.” MENA Politics. Vol 5, No. 1.  

2020. “Teaching the Middle East in the Middle East.” Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative Newsletter. Vol 1., No. 3, October.

2020. “The Tragedies and Dilemmas of US Intervention in Northeast Syria.” Middle East Report. Spring, No. 294.

REVIEWS

2023. Review of Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own by Tsolin Nalbantian. Mediterranean Politics, Vol. 28, No. 3.

2017. “The Kurds of Syria.” Arab Studies Journal. Fall, Vol 25, No. 2, pp 226–36.

2010. Review of The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar. The National (Dubai). August 2.

2010. Review of The Ghosts of Martyrs Square: An Eyewitness Account of Lebanon’s Life Struggle by Michael Young. The National (Dubai). June 26.