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...
Articles
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...
Between Declaration and Compliance: Syria’s Accession to the Global Initiative on International Humanitarian Law
In this article, I set out the significance of Syria's accession, on 21 May 2026, to the Global Initiative for...
The Trial of Assad without Assad
In this article, I lay out the dual nature of the in absentia trial currently underway before the Fourth Criminal Court in...
Israel’s Gradual Annexation of Southern Syria under the Pretext of Mine Removal
I show in this article that the mine-removal operations Israel is carrying out along its borders with southern Syria, through...