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)

Israel, Not Iran or Hezbollah, Wants a Wider War
Suweida Under Fire: The Consolidation of Power in Damascus, and Sectarianism
"The areas of the uprising were those that had suffered the most from the liberalization measures of the 2000s"
Syria’s Economic Transition: From Kleptocracy to Islamic Neoliberalism in a War-Torn Economy
Why Syria needs better governance...and a new kind of opposition
Three Requisites for Syria’s Reconstruction Process
“There is now a space… to try to rebuild popular civil resistance”
Where is Ahmad al-Chareh’s Syria heading?
Hamas After 7 October: Resistance and Challenges
Lebanon’s Sovereignty Battle Isn’t Just Over Arms

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