Joseph Daher

Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019) and Hezbollah: The Political Economy of Lebanon’s Party of God (Pluto, 2016), and founder of the blog Syria Freedom Forever. He is also co-founder of the Alliance of Middle Eastern and North African Socialists.

Articles by this author (136)

Macron on an imperial visit
A breath of the 2011 resistance in Syrian protest movement,
“More Tribal, More Sectarian, More Crony Capitalist Than Ever”
Peace in Syria: without Assad
We need a large movement from below!
What’s Happening in Raqqa, Idlib and in Syria
Calling for an end to intervention is not nearly enough
The Kurdish national movement in Syria: political goals, controversy and dynamic
Three Years Later: The Evolution of Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria
Call for Solidarity with Uprisings in the Middle East & North Africa

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