{"id":7043,"date":"2020-07-23T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salonsyria.com\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:51:34","slug":"roundtable-conversation-20-years-after-bashar-al-asads-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salonsyria.com\/en\/roundtable-conversation-20-years-after-bashar-al-asads-succession\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtable Conversation: Twenty Years After Bashar Al-Asad&#8217;s Succession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Roundtable Conversation: Twenty Years After Bashar Al-Asad&#039;s Succession\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/29rhzmfw8FU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Asad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young\u00a0<\/span>ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. This is a conversation between several scholars on the transition, policies, institutions, uprising, and mayhem that characterized his rule, co-sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/\"><em>Jadaliyya<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salonsyria.com\/english\/#.XXkhn5NKhQI\"><em>Salon Syria<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Featuring<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Omar Dahi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Omar\u00a0S.\u00a0Dahi<\/strong>\u00a0is a co-editor of Jadaliyya and an associate professor of economics at Hampshire College and co-director of the Peacebuilding and State building program and research associate at the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests are in the political economy of development in the Middle East, South-South relations, comparative regionalism, peace and conflict studies, and critical security studies.\u00a0He has published in academic outlets such as the\u00a0<em>Journal of Development Economics<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Applied Economics<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Southern Economic Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Political Geography<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Middle East Report<\/em>,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Forced Migration Review<\/em>, and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Critical Studies on Security<\/em>. His last book\u00a0<em>South-South Trade and Finance in the 21st Century: Rise of the South or a Second Great Divergence<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored with Firat Demir) explores the ambiguous developmental impact of the new economic linkages among countries of the global South. He has served on the editorial collective of Middle East Report and is a co-founder and co-director of the Beirut School for Critical Security Studies working group at the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Dahi is also the founder and director of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityincontext.com\/\">Security in Context<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>initiative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katty Alhayek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katty\u00a0Alhayek<\/strong>\u00a0is a scholar-activist from Syria pursuing a doctorate in communication at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her research interests broadly center around themes of Syrian refugees, gender, media audiences, activism, and new technologies.\u00a0Katty\u00a0published peer-reviewed articles in journals like\u00a0<em>Gender, Technology and Development<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Syria Studies<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>Feminist Media Studies<\/em>.\u00a0Katty\u00a0worked for organizations like\u00a0<em>The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women<\/em>;\u00a0<em>The Online Journal of Space Communication<\/em>; and\u00a0<em>Geneva Institute for Human Rights<\/em>. A former Open Society Foundations fellow, Ms. Alhayek holds Master\u2019s degrees in International Affairs and Media Studies from Ohio University and a graduate certificate in Women`s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She earned an undergraduate degree in Media Studies from Damascus University in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bassam Haddad<\/strong>\u00a0(Moderator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bassam Haddad<\/strong>\u00a0is Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meis.gmu.edu\/\">Middle East and Islamic Studies Program<\/a>\u00a0and Associate Professor at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/schar.gmu.edu\/about\/faculty-directory\/bassam-s-haddad\">Schar School of Policy and Government<\/a>\u00a0at George Mason University.<em>\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?id=18447\"><em>Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2011) and\u00a0co-editor of the forthcoming book,\u00a0<em>A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East\u00a0<\/em>(Forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2021).\u00a0Bassam serves as Founding Editor of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabstudiesjournal.org\/\"><em>Arab Studies Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowledgeproduction.com\/\">Knowledge Production Project<\/a>. He is co-producer\/director of the award-winning documentary film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutbaghdad.com\/\"><em>About Baghdad<\/em><\/a>, and director of the series<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabsandterrorism.com\/\"><em>Arabs and Terrorism<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Bassam is Co-Founder\/Editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/\"><em>Jadaliyya<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Ezine and Executive Director of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabstudiesinstitute.org\/\"><em>Arab Studies Institute<\/em><\/a>. He serves on the Board of the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theacss.org\/\"><em>Arab Council for the Social Sciences<\/em><\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>and is Executive Producer of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statushour.com\/\"><em>Status<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Audio Magazine. Bassam is Co-Project Manager for the<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salonsyria.com\/\"><em>Salon Syria Project<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>and Director of the\u00a0Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mespi.org\/\">MESPI<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0He\u00a0received MESA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mesana.org\/awards\/awardee\/jere-l-bacharach-service-award\/bassam-haddad\">Jere L. Bacharach Service Award<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 for his service to the profession.\u00a0Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book tittled\u00a0<em>Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(forthcoming, Stanford University Press).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Hamidi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ibrahim Hamidi<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Syrian people\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Syrian_people\">Syrian<\/a>\u00a0journalist, who heads the\u00a0Damascus\u00a0bureau of the Arab daily newspaper\u00a0<em><a title=\"Al-Hayat\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Al-Hayat\">Al-Hayat<\/a><\/em>, and contributes to several other international media outlets and think tanks. Previously, he served as head of the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebanese_Broadcasting_Corporation\">Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>\u00a0(LBC) office in Damascus, in addition to his work with al-Hayat, and as a senior writer for\u00a0<em><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Forward Magazine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forward_Magazine\">Forward Magazine<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in Damascus. Hamidi&#8217;s work focuses on strategic issues in the\u00a0<a title=\"Middle East\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_East\">Middle East<\/a>, with special insight into Syria&#8217;s internal and regional politics. He is also a Research Fellow and co-founder of the Syrian Studies Center at the\u00a0<a title=\"University of St Andrews\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_St_Andrews\">University of St Andrews<\/a>\u00a0in Scotland.\u00a0Hamidi is also a co-founder of the Arab Investigative Journalism Program (ARIJ).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Wedeen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Wedeen<\/strong>\u00a0is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and the Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. She is also Associate Faculty in Anthropology and the Co-Editor of the University of Chicago Book Series, \u201cStudies in Practices of Meaning.\u201d Her publications include three books:\u00a0<em>Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria<\/em>\u00a0(1999; with a new preface, 2015);\u00a0<em>Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power and Performance in Yemen\u00a0<\/em>(2008); and\u00a0<em>Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria\u00a0<\/em>(2019), which has won two awards from the\u00a0<em>American Political Science Association<\/em>. Among her articles are the following: \u201cConceptualizing \u2018Culture\u2019: Possibilities for Political Science\u201d (2002); \u201cConcepts and Commitments in the Study of Democracy\u201d (2004), \u201cEthnography as an Interpretive Enterprise\u201d (2009), \u201cReflections on Ethnographic Work in Political Science\u201d (2010), \u201cIdeology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria\u201d (2013), and \u201cScientific Knowledge, Liberalism, and Empire: American Political Science in the Modern Middle East\u201d (2016). She is the recipient of the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award and an NSF fellowship, and is currently completing an edited volume with Joseph Masco, entitled\u00a0<em>Conspiracy\/Theory<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basileus Zeno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Basileus Zeno\u00a0<\/strong>is a Syrian archaeologist pursuing a doctorate in Political Science at University of Massachusetts\/Amherst. He holds a BA (2006) and MA (2011) in archaeology from the University of Damascus (Syria), where his studies focused on Hellenistic Antiquity and Islamic civilization. He was a graduate fellow at the Institut fran\u00e7ais du Proche-Orient (IFPO) from 2007 to 2012. Until summer 2012, Basileus was doing his Ph.D. in classical archaeology, researching the production of coins under the Seleucids in Northern Syria, but he couldn\u2019t complete his research because of the outbreak of the war.\u00a0In 2013, he started his M.A. in Political Science at Ohio University, which he completed in 2015. Basileus is broadly interested in the areas of Comparative Politics, Contemporary Political Theory and Identity Politics. His scholarly interests primarily focus on nationalism, civil wars, sectarian transnationalism, refugees, and social movements in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On 17 July 2000, Bashar Al-Asad became President, surviving his father Hafez Al-Asad who ruled Syria for thirty years. The young\u00a0ophthalmologist had promised a new and modern future for Syria and Syrians. Two decades later, Syria lies in ruins. 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