MAKING SENSE OF THE SYRIAN TRAGEDY

In the three years since the Syrian uprising erupted, over 100,000 people have been killed, millions have been displaced, and civil war has become the dominant dynamic.  On Sunday, April 20, Ziad Abu-Rish will speak on the crisis, highlighting the major causes and dynamics of the conflict as well as the question of U.S. responsibility.  Ziad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in History from Whitman College.  His research interests focus on the political economy and cultural constructions of state formation in the Levant (Eastern Mediterranean), and he teaches courses on a broad array of topics related to the history of the modern Middle East.  He is co-editor of The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order (Pluto Press, 2012) and serves on the editorial teams of the Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya E-zine. .

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