Ahmad Hassoun Before the Court… Can Syria Try the Inciters?
In this article, I clarify that the trial of Ahmad Hassoun opens a highly sensitive legal question, one that concerns...
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Rubble Removal in Syria: Rebuilding the Cities without Destroying the Evidence
The writer Fadel Abdulghany argues, in an article published on 28 June 2026, that the removal of rubble in Syria...
Suspending the Cybercrime Law: A Constitutional Test for the Transitional Phase in Syria
In this article, I clarify that the debate revived by the case of the arrest of the content creator Hassan...
Revenge Is Not Justice: The Path of Transition in Syria Must Turn Anger into Accountability
In this article, I show that the retaliatory violence which follows the collapse of authoritarian regimes isn't a random cultural...
The Trial of Atef Najib and the Foundations of Syrian Accountability
In this article, I explain that the significance of the trial of Atef Najib is not confined to holding a...
The European Courts, the Syrian Trials, and the Incomplete Structure of Accountability
I show in this article that the question posed by the international crimes committed in Syria is not one of...
Bosnia, Syria, and the Limits of Reconciliation Without Acknowledgment
In this article, I show that the discourse of historical unity and prior coexistence, which societies resort to in the...
Syria and the US Terror Lists… More Than Just a Signature
In this article, I show that Syria's inclusion on the list of state sponsors of terrorism since 1979 remains in...
How Did Assad Deceive the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons?
In this article, I demonstrate that the Assad regime's 2013 declaration of its chemical weapons programme was a systematic and deliberate institutional deception. The...
The Euphrates Without Law: How the Legal Vacuum Turned Seasonal Rainfall into Forced Displacement
In this article, I show that the Euphrates River floods that struck the governorates of Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zour in late May...