SFM Fellows Harout Akdedian & Harith Hasan published "State atrophy and the reconfiguration of borderlands in Syria and Iraq: Post-2011 dynamics" in the Journal of Political Geography, June 2020.
SFM Director Aziz Al-Azmeh, author of Secularism in the Arab World: Contexts, Ideas and Consequences is published in Association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, which explores secularism and secularisation in Arab societies since the mid-19th century.
Harout Akdedian, SFM Post-Doctoral Fellow, publishes "Ethno-Religious Belonging in the Syrian Conflict: Between Communitarianism and Sectarianization" in The Middle East Journal, Autumn 2019.
SFM Senior Research Fellow Dr Harout Akdedian publishes "On Violence and Radical Theology in the Syrian War: The Instrumentality of Spectacular Violence and Exclusionary Practices from Comparative and Local Standpoints" in the Journal of Politics, Religion & Ideolo
Article by Scott Malcomson, entitled "Soveign Virtues" brings together in a common framework, SFM Director Aziz Al-Azmeh and CEU Rector Michael Ignatieff.
