Join the Middle East Studies Program in a conversation on how the international community failed Syrians with panelists Reem Bailony, Nihal
Reem Bailony: Assistant Professor of Middle East history at Agnes Scott College and formerly the American Druze Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Her book, Syria's Transnational Rebellion: Diaspora Politics and the Revolt of 1925-1927 is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press.
Nihal Kayali: PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at UCLA. She is a political sociologist who examines how Syrian refugees access healthcare services in Turkey. Her work focuses on the role of Syrian doctors in providing care to fellow refugees through both state and nonstate providers.
Wael Sawah: Editor-in-chief of The Syrian Observer, an online news service on Syria. He is a Syrian researcher on issues of civil society in Syria, author of many articles and books in Arabic and English, including “Taking to the Streets: Activism, Uprisings and Democratization in the Arab World.” Sawah is a member of the Advisory Board of the Middle East Institute on Syria. He has been a leading political activist and public intellectual in Syria since the 1970s.
Basileus Zeno: Assistant Professor in Politics at York University. He has been widely published in academic as well as public journals. His article on the Syrian uprising received the 2022 Syrian Studies Outstanding Article Prize in 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was awarded Karl Loewenstein Fellowship in Political Science at Amherst College.
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Sanford Consortium
2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive
San Diego, CA 92037
Thursday, April 20 - 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM