Joseph Daher
Joseph Daher completed a Doctorate in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London (2015), and a Doctorate in Political Science at Lausanne University (2018), Switzerland. He currently teaches at Lausanne University and is a part time affiliate professor at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy), in which he participated in the “Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project” (WPCS) and co-coordinates now the “Syrian Trajectories: Challenges and opportunities for peacebuilding" project . He is the author of Hezbollah: Political Economy of the Party of God (Pluto Press, 2016) and Syria After the Uprisings: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto Press 2019). He created the blog Syria Freedom Forever.
The Socio-Economic Ramifications of the February 2023 Earthquake in Syria
19 July 2023
High inflation rates, price hikes of basic goods, unemployment, lack of economic policies and loss of income: the earthquake added to more than a decade of devastation, leaving Syrian citizens...
How the Assad regime feigns ‘secularism’ while strengthening conservatism
14 January 2022
For decades, the Assads have tried projecting an image of themselves as “secular” bulwarks against religious extremism. All the while, they’ve been shoring up the powers of loyalist religious institutions...
Syria’s Labor Communist Party, a rich political history
30 October 2020
The LCP's history of standing alongside minority groups could hold lessons for today's Syrian opposition.
Syria’s Labor Communist Party, a rich political history
16 October 2020
What can Syria's progressive opposition learn from the story of the Labor Communist Party?
