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Bassam Haddad

Associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, co-founder and editor of the Jadaliyya online journal and executive director of the Arab Studies Institute.

StoryDec 09, 2024

Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is Grim”: Scholar Bassam Haddad

StoryNov 23, 2016

“Nothing Short of a Slaughter”: 1 Million Syrians in Aleppo Under Siege with No Hospital, Food

StoryOct 27, 2016

Bassam Haddad: We Have a Duty to Call for End to Killing in Syria & How We End It Matters

StoryAug 30, 2013

U.S. Prepares to Strike Syria Over Alleged Chemical Weapons as British Vote Not to Back Int’l Action

StoryNov 14, 2011

Arab League Suspends Syria, Concern Grows over Foreign Intervention to End Crisis

StoryApr 19, 2011

Syria Lifts Emergency Law as Protesters Come Under Fire in Syrian City of Homs

StoryMar 28, 2011

Will Syria Lift Decades-Old Emergency Law? Street Protests & Deadly Crackdown Force Assad Regime to Consider Political Changes

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