Book
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression, Studies in Comparative Politics Series, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Book
Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression, Studies in Comparative Politics Series, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Articles
(with Mu'tasem Abuzaid) “Incubating revolution: the role of social networks and the built environment in the 2011 Syrian uprising,” Forthcoming, Comparative Political Studies.
“Politicizing post-war governance: the state contraction and incumbent survival in Aleppo.” Middle East Law and Governance. Published 5 August 2026, awaiting issue.
(with Konstantin Ash) “Ethnicity and Strategic Repression of Protest during the 2011 Syrian Uprising.” Perspectives on Politics. Published 27 October 2025, awaiting issue.
(with Loubna El Amine) “Thinking about groups in political science: A case for bringing the meso-level back in.” Political Science Quarterly, 132:2, 2022.
(with Konstantin Ash) “Identifying and Correcting Signal Shift in DMSP-OLS Data (Letter).” Remote Sensing, 12:14, 2020.
“Networks, informal governance, and ethnic violence in a Syrian city,” World Politics, 72:3, 2020.
“State networks and intra-ethnic group variation in the 2011 Syrian uprising,” Comparative Political Studies, 52:7, 2019.
(with Mark Beissinger and Amaney Jamal) “Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions,” Comparative Politics, 48:1, 2015.
Special issues and edited volumes
Local intermediaries in post-2011 Syria: transformation and continuity, co-edited with Kheder Khaddour, Beirut: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2019.
“The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City,” special section of City and Society, co-edited with Sarah El-Kazaz, April 2017.
Other article-length publications
(with Peter Salisbury) “Networks, power, and packet-switching: understanding the Houthis’ global reach.” British Academy Global (Dis)order paper series. Forthcoming.
“Spontaneous settlement, social reproduction, and local communities in Homs.” in Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War, ed. Birgit Schäbler, Beirut: Orient-Institut, 2025, p. 121–52.
(with Kheder Khaddour) “How Syria’s War Extended Border Policies to Much of the Country,” (in How Border Peripheries are Changing the Nature of Arab States, ed. Maha Yahya, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
(lead contributor) “Ruling over the Ruins of Aleppo,” International Crisis Group Middle East/North Africa Report No, 234, May 2022.
(second contributor) “Brokering a Ceasefire in Yemen’s Economic Conflict,” International Crisis Group Middle East/North Africa Report No. 213, January 2022.
“Dayr al-Zur from revolution to ISIS: local networks, hybrid identities, and outside authorities,” (in Syria: Borders, Boundaries, and the State, ed. Matthieu Cimino, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020).
(with Kheder Khaddour) “Building from the wreckage: intermediaries in contemporary Syria,” (in Local intermediaries in post-2011 Syria: transformation and continuity, ed. Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur, Beirut: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2019).
(with Sarah El-Kazaz) “The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City,” introduction to guest edited special section of City and Society, 29:1, April 2017.
(with Kheder Khaddour) “Eastern Expectations: The Changing Dynamics in Syria’s Tribal Regions,” report for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 2017.
(with Kheder Khaddour) “The struggle for Syria’s regions,” Middle East Report, Winter 2013.
Work in progress
(with Majd Eddin Saleh and Ammar Shamaileh) "Patronage after the Fall: The Transformation of Clientelism in Contemporary Syria" (under review for edited volume).
(with Jeroen Gunning, Dena Qaddumi, Dima Smaira) "Seeing the city through the state," (special issue, proposal invited by International Journal of Urban and Regional Research).
(with Mu'tasem Abuzaid) "Hadina and the state: how states deal with populations they can neither co-opt nor eradicate" (invited for submission by International Journal of Urban and Regional Research).
(with Salam Alsaadi) “Why do “Ethnically Included” Groups Rebel? The Limits of Nominal Ethnic Inclusion,” (working paper).
(with Mu'tasem Abuzaid) “Strong bonds, weak bridges: network dynamics and revolutionary mobilization in the Syrian uprising,” (working paper).
(with Munqeth Agha Othman) "The role of mosques in contentious mobilization" (in progress).