Special Issue: Research and Scholarship in the New Syria
Volume 30, No. 1 - 2026
Editor: Joel Veldkamp (joel.veldkamp@graduateinstitute.ch)
A Century of Revolutions: Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025)
Luca Nelson-Gabin
Roundtable: Research and Scholarship in the New Syria
Guest editor: Andrea Stanton
1. Roundtable Introduction: Research and Scholarship in the New Syria
Andrea Stanton
Rebecca Joubin
3. National History as a Social Contract
Loubna Kheir
4. New Horizons and Practices in Syrian Historical Studies, a Potential Public History?
Matthieu Rey
5. Closed Archives, Missing Textbooks, and the Radical Possibility of a Syrian History Not-Yet-Written
Elyse Semerdjian
6. The Syrian Situation and the Researcher
Faedah M. Totah
7. A Human Rights History of Syria?
Keith David Watenpaugh
Book reviews
Book review editor: David Motzafi-Haller
Reviewed by Paulo G. Pinto.
Reviewed by Burak Sayim.
Reviewed by Carl-José Abi Hanna.
Reviewed by Mona Bieling.
Syrian Studies Association 2025 Prizes
Best Article or Book Chapter - Victoria Abrahamyan, “Loyalty at Stake: Armenian Refugees and the Syrian Great Revolt 1925-1926.”
Honorable Mention - Muhammed Aslaner, “Responding to the Arab Revolt: The Circassian Volunteer Cavalry and the Defence of Ottoman Transjordan in the First World War.”
Past Issues
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Editor: Joel Veldkamp (joel.veldkamp@graduateinstitute.ch)
Feature Articles:
Muhammed Fatih: From Idlib’s Friday pulpits to Damascus’ Umayyad Mosque: How religious programming shaped Syria’s liberation, 2019-2024Andrea Stanton: Assad’s Digital Ghosts: The Syrian Presidency’s social media accounts after the fall of the regime
Nikolaos Stelgias: The Contested Horizon: Kurdish Persistence and the Principle of Democratic Confederalism in Post-Assad Syria
Rebecca Joubin: Syrian Television Drama’s Prison Metaphors from the 1960s Onward and the Ethics of Prison Representation in the “New Syria”
Field Notes and Reflections:
Michael Provence: Visiting the Syrian National Archives after Assad’s fallNasser Rabbat: The Damascus I Remember
Nuha Askar: Has the Syrian revolution lost its compass?
James A. Reilly and Elyse Semerdjian: In Memoriam: Abdul-Karim Rafeq
Syrian Studies Association 2024 Prizes
Best Book - Elizabeth Williams, States of Cultivation.
Honorable Mention - Tylor Brand, Famine Worlds.
Best Article - Spenser Rapone, “The Metaphysical Universe of Michel ʿAflaq and His Party”
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Editor: Joel Veldkamp (joel.veldkamp@graduateinstitute.ch)Read full issue
Feature Articles:
Michael Provence: ”Gaza and the Depressing Continuity of Colonial Violence”Maria Kastrinou: “From the Golan to Gaza: Ethnic cleansing and the colonial logic of Israeli occupation”
Dotan Halevy: “Sawafi al-Raml: Sandiness and the Palestinian Refugee Experience”
Yara M. Asi: “What is a Red Line? The Humanitarian Implications of Impunity in Syria and Gaza”
Photo Essay:
Maria Kastrinou: “From the Golan to Gaza”
Field Notes:
Karim Safieddine: ”Syria-Palestine solidarity: Resisting geopoliticization and identitarianism”Andrea Stanton: “Former Syrian Studies Association Board Member Injured in Police Attack at University Student Protest”
Poetry:
Iman al-Ghafari: “When the Snow Falls” -
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In this issue:
Winners of Annual Prizes:
Best dissertation - Murat Bozluolcay
Best article - China Sajadian
Feature Articles:
"Mapping history, while erasing it: The case of the 2002 edition of An Historical Atlas of Islam"
Johannes S. T. Waardenburg"An 'Archive of Counter-Insurgency': Subalternity and the Syrian Uprising"
Jack McGinn"The Strangeness of Language as a Wound out of Displacement: On Translating Salim Barakat’s Childhood Autobiography"
Mahmoud Hosny Roshdy
Research Notes:
"Studying the Syria Crisis of 1957"
Gabriel Odom
Book Reviews:Max Weiss. Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba‘thist Syria (2022). Reviewed by Lovisa Berg
Matthieu Rey. When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946–63 (2022). Reviewed by David Motzafi-Haller
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Feature Article
“Civil War and Cultural Heritage in Syria, 2011-2015” - Silvia Perini and Mattia Guidetti
Syrian Studies Association News
Syrian Studies Association Annual Meeting - Stacy D Fahrenthold
Secretary-Treasurer Bio - Geoffrey David Schad
Member at Large Bio - Melanie Schulze Tanielian
Book Reviews
Adel Beshara, Outright Assassination - Maya EI-Darzi
Raymond Hinnebusch and Tina Zintl, Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol. 1 - Glenn E Robinson
Volume 18, No. 1 - Spring 2013
The Syrian Uprisings: Reflections on the Past Two Years
Volume 18, No. 2 - 2013 (Zip file)
Syria: Domestic, Regional, and International Perspectives
Volume 17, No. 1 - 2012 (Zip file)
The Syrian Uprisings: Reflections on the Past 14 Months
Syria: Past, Present, Future
Syrian Studies Association Newsletter (1994-2011)
Volume 16, No. 1 - Spring 2011
Volume 16, No. 2 - 2011 (Zip file)
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