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Syria

Don’t Give Up Yet: There’s Still a Chance to Salvage Eastern Syria
- Melissa G. Dalton, Frances Z. Brown
- August 09, 2018
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
The United States can still salvage a marginally but meaningfully better outcome for its own interests and the Syrian people by pushing for greater formal decentralization in eastern Syria.
- Diwan
What Do You Predict Will Happen in the Coming Weeks in Syria’s Idlib Governorate?
- Michael Young
- August 09, 2018
- - عربي
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
- Sada - Analysis
Russia, Turkey, and the Fate of Idlib
- Ömer Özkizilcik
- August 07, 2018
- - عربي
In Idlib, Turkey could deter Russian airstrikes and ensure the region remains out of the Syrian regime’s control by going after extremist groups.
- Sada - Analysis
Russia’s Local and Regional Approach to Syria
- Mona Alami
- July 31, 2018
- - عربي
Russia has successfully used local ceasefires and international negotiations to cut off rebel strongholds and co-opt regional powers to support its offensives.
- Diwan
What Would Happen if the United States Were to Recognize Israel’s Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights?
- Michael Young
- July 26, 2018
- - عربي
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
- Diwan
Renegotiating the Alliance
- Mohanad Hage Ali
- July 24, 2018
- - عربي
As the Syrian war nears its end, the Assad regime and Hezbollah appear to be rebalancing their relationship in Lebanon.
- Diwan
The Art of Just Any Deal
- Perry Cammack
- July 17, 2018
- - عربي
Donald Trump is so motivated to reach agreements, that we might have to worry if he succeeds.
- Diwan
From Your Region, What Will Officials Be Looking For on the Middle East in the Trump-Putin Summit?
- Michael Young
- July 12, 2018
- - عربي
  - Русский
A regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
- Diwan
Preparing for the Aftermath
- Hadeel Al-Saidawi
- July 11, 2018
- - عربي
Civil society organizations are moving to the forefront as vital intermediaries in Syria’s northeast.
- Diwan
Syria’s Final Frontiers?
- Michael Young
- June 28, 2018
- - عربي
Nicholas Haslam of Adam Smith International discusses local administration in Syria, and prospects for local autonomy.

Loulouwa Al Rachid
Co-Director
Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States
Carnegie Middle East Center
Loulouwa Al Rachid is a co-director of the Program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States at the Carnegie Middle East Center.
Joseph Bahout
Visiting Scholar
Middle East Program
Joseph Bahout is a visiting scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program. His research focuses on political developments in Lebanon and Syria, regional spillover from the Syrian crisis, and identity politics across the region.
Frances Z. Brown
Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Frances Z. Brown is a fellow with Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where she researches stabilization, state building, democratization, decentralization, drivers of conflict, and local governance in fragile states.
Perry Cammack
Fellow
Middle East Program
Perry Cammack is a fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on long-term regional trends and their implications for American foreign policy.
Michele Dunne
Director and Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Dunne is an expert on political and economic change in Arab countries, particularly Egypt, as well as U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Kim Ghattas
Senior Visiting Fellow
Kim Ghattas is a senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she is focused on writing a book about the impact of the rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia on the wider region since 1979.
Amr Hamzawy
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Amr Hamzawy studied political science and developmental studies in Cairo, The Hague, and Berlin.
Kheder Khaddour
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.
Raphaël Lefèvre
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center
Raphaël Lefèvre is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Sunni Islamist movements in Lebanon.
Ariel (Eli) Levite
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Nuclear Policy Program
Levite was the principal deputy director general for policy at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission from 2002 to 2007.
Marc Lynch
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Marc Lynch is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.
Andrew Miller
Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Program
Andrew Miller is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Middle East Program.
Marwan Muasher
Vice President for Studies
Muasher is vice president for studies at Carnegie, where he oversees research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.
Yezid Sayigh
Senior Fellow
Middle East Center
Yezid Sayigh is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where he leads the program on Civil-Military Relations in Arab States (CMRAS). His work focuses on the comparative political and economic roles of Arab armed forces and nonstate actors, the impact of war on states and societies, and the politics of post-conflict reconstruction and security sector transformation in Arab transitions, and authoritarian resurgence.
Jake Walles
Nonresident Senior Fellow
Middle East Program
Jake Walles is a nonresident senior fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he focuses on Israeli-Palestinian issues, Tunisia, and counterterrorism.