Syria’s Morning After: Who Owns the Revolution?
2 July 2025. From 18:30 To 20:00 | Conference | English | IEMed (Girona, 20 · BCN)
A public lecture by Fawaz A. Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013.
He earned a doctorate from Oxford University and M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Gerges has taught at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia, and was a research scholar at Princeton and the chairholder of the Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College, New York.
His special interests include Islam and the political process, social movements, including mainstream Islamist movements and jihadist groups (like the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda), Arab politics and Muslim politics in the 20th century, the international relations of the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli conflict, state and society in the Middle East, American foreign policy towards the Muslim world, the modern history of the Middle East, history of conflict, diplomacy and foreign policy, and historical sociology.
An event with Yezid Sayigh, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, as a discussant. Within the framework of the Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, a joint initiative of IBEI, Blanquerna, Catalonia International and IEMed.
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