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What Kind of Endgame?

Maha Yahya interviews Sultan Barakat about the uncertain future of Syria.

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By Maha Yahya
Published on Apr 10, 2017
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Diwan, a blog from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program and the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, draws on Carnegie scholars to provide insight into and analysis of the region. 

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Sultan Barakat is the founding director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at York University, where he established and led, until 2014, the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit. Today, he is the director of the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute. A Jordanian national, he has followed closely the ongoing peace and reconstruction talks involving Syria. To discuss these and other issues, Barakat sat with Maha Yahya, the director of Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, for a Diwan interview on March 14, 2017.

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Maha Yahya

Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

Maha Yahya is director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.

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