Bibliography of Syria Studies

Books

Out of Nowhere: The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War

Frontline Syria: From Revolution to Proxy War

Syria’s Kurds: History, Politics and Society

Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism and Revolution

Syria at Bay: Secularism, Islamism and “Pax Americana”

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

Articles

Beyond Genocide: Towards an Improved Analysis and Understanding of the Syrian Regime’s Mass Atrocity Crimes in the Syrian Civil War

Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria

The Dimensions and Attributes of State Failure in Syria

Subjects in Contested Spaces: The Securitization of the Kurdish Language in Syria

Acting “As If”: Symbolic Politics and Social Control in Syria

Book Chapters

Sunni Clergy Politics in the Cities of Ba’thi Syria

Enduring Legacies: The Politics of Private Sector Development in Syria

Changing Social Structure, Shifting Alliances and Authritarianism in Syria

The 2004 Events in al-Qamishli: Has the Kurdish Question Erupted in Syria?

The Status of the Kurds in Syria

Reports

Kidnapped by ISIS: Failure to Uncover the Fate of Syria’s Missing

I Want to Continue to Study: Barriers to Secondary Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Jordan

Bring Me Back to Canada: Plight of Canadians Held in Northeast Syria for Alleged ISIS Links

They Treated Us in Monstrous Ways: Sexual Violence Against Men, Boys, and Transgender Women in the Syrian Conflict

Targeting Life in Idlib: Syrian and Russian Strikes on Civilian Infrastructure

They Burn Through Everything: The Human Cost of Incendiary Weapons and the Limits of International Law

Our Lives Are Like Death: Syrian Refugee Returns from Lebanon and Jordan

No One is Spared Abuses Against Older People in Armed Conflict

It Was Really Hard to Protect Myself: Impact of the Armed Conflict in Syria on Children with Disabilities

Theses

From Arm to Negotiations: Transformations within the Syrian Armed Islamist Movements (2011-2021), Ahrar al-Sham (the Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant), Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), and Failaq al-Sham (the Sham Legion)

Online Tactical Innovation and Stagnation: Insights from the Aftermath of the Arab Spring in Syria and Tunisia

The Reception of the Ruins of Palmyra in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1678-1820

Justice at Home, Justice Abroad: The Accountability Efforts Relating to the Conflicts in Eastern Ukraine, Northern Iraq and Syria

Assessing Russia’s actions in Ukraine and Syria: Implications for the Changing Character of War