Gripping accounts of how ordinary Syrians strove to survive the hardships that preceded the Assad regime's collapse Activists striving in the shadow of Syria's police state; widows launching small businesses to feed their families; farmers tending fields battered by destruction, pollution, and drought: their voices are as central to Syria's conflict as they are absent from most discussions of it. Drawing on more than three thousand interviews between 2017 and 2024, Syrians in the Shadow of War explores how ordinary people began picking up the pieces as battle lines froze and global interest in…mehr
Gripping accounts of how ordinary Syrians strove to survive the hardships that preceded the Assad regime's collapse Activists striving in the shadow of Syria's police state; widows launching small businesses to feed their families; farmers tending fields battered by destruction, pollution, and drought: their voices are as central to Syria's conflict as they are absent from most discussions of it. Drawing on more than three thousand interviews between 2017 and 2024, Syrians in the Shadow of War explores how ordinary people began picking up the pieces as battle lines froze and global interest in Syria waned. It documents the social and economic decay that preceded the Syrian regime's spectacular collapse: the hollowing out of public services and productive industries, the disintegration of social ties, the trauma of a war seemingly without end. Equally important, it captures the resourcefulness through which Syrians helped one another survive, and which will prove vital in the uncertain stage ahead. This book is itself a testament to such tenacity: born of on-the-ground fieldwork by Syrian analysts in one of the world's most forbidding research environments, thesefindings concern anyone with a stake in Syria's future or that of other post-conflict societies-from grassroots organizers to international policymakers. Contributors: Lina Ghoutouk, researcher and human rights practitioner, Beirut, Lebanon Lina Omran, Bielefeld University, Germany Malak al-Shanawani, researcher, filmmaker, and feminist activist, Damascus, Syria Manar al-Tizini, psychologist and social researcher, Marseille, France
Alex Simon (Edited by) is a researcher, writer, and co-founder of Synaps, a Beirut-based research and training center that conducts intensive fieldwork on socioeconomic trends in the Middle East and broader Mediterranean. From 2017 to 2024, he coordinated Synaps's team of Syrian researchers working across Syria and neighboring countries. His current research focuses on human mobility, environmental stress, and transnational economic interdependence. He holds a Bachelor's from Princeton University and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Matthieu Rey (Afterword by) is a CNRS researcher specializing in contemporary Middle Eastern history, with a special focus on Syria's and Iraq's political systems and formerly director of contemporary studies at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO), Beirut. He is also an associate researcher at the Collège de France and the Wits History Workshop. He is the author of When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East: Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 (AUC Press, 2022). Peter Harling (Afterword by) is the founder and director of Synaps. He has lived and worked in the Arab world since 1998. He first visited Syria that year, and was based in Damascus between 2006 and 2014. He advised Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi in their attempts to launch a peace process in Syria.
Inhaltsangabe
Note on Contributors Introduction: Snapshots from the Day Before Alex Simon Chapter 1: Being Syrian Forced Coexistence No Damascus like Home The Generation Gap Retreat, Reconcile, Resist In Transition: Opening the Floodgates Chapter 2: Organizing in the Crevices Latakia and Tartous: Negotiation and Cooptation Informal Civic Networks Faith-based Charities Homs: Depth and Divison Raqqa and Deir Ezzor: Dependence and Precarity The Bottom-up Covid Response In Transition: Out of the Shadows Chapter 3: Engaging from Outside In Search of Entries The Lebanese Crash The Turkish Crackdown The Remittance Crunch Small-scale Investment Accountability from Abroad The Dialogue Industry In Transition: The Bumpy Road Home Chapter 4: Negotiating the State State, Regime, and Society The Undead State The Aid Lifeline Surrealist Property Laws Monopolizing Civil Documents In Transition: Reconstructing the State? Chapter 5: Serving Public Services Divided Secondary Schools Decaying Universities The Mental Health Crisis Withering Agriculture Vanishing Water Elusive Internet In Transition: Beyond Crowdfunding Chapter 6: Staying in Business The Beseiged Business Class The Economic Battlefield Women to the Front Women-led Businesses In Transition: Still Surviving Conclusion: Into the Day After Afterword Matthieu Rey and Peter Harling Additional Reading
Note on Contributors Introduction: Snapshots from the Day Before Alex Simon Chapter 1: Being Syrian Forced Coexistence No Damascus like Home The Generation Gap Retreat, Reconcile, Resist In Transition: Opening the Floodgates Chapter 2: Organizing in the Crevices Latakia and Tartous: Negotiation and Cooptation Informal Civic Networks Faith-based Charities Homs: Depth and Divison Raqqa and Deir Ezzor: Dependence and Precarity The Bottom-up Covid Response In Transition: Out of the Shadows Chapter 3: Engaging from Outside In Search of Entries The Lebanese Crash The Turkish Crackdown The Remittance Crunch Small-scale Investment Accountability from Abroad The Dialogue Industry In Transition: The Bumpy Road Home Chapter 4: Negotiating the State State, Regime, and Society The Undead State The Aid Lifeline Surrealist Property Laws Monopolizing Civil Documents In Transition: Reconstructing the State? Chapter 5: Serving Public Services Divided Secondary Schools Decaying Universities The Mental Health Crisis Withering Agriculture Vanishing Water Elusive Internet In Transition: Beyond Crowdfunding Chapter 6: Staying in Business The Beseiged Business Class The Economic Battlefield Women to the Front Women-led Businesses In Transition: Still Surviving Conclusion: Into the Day After Afterword Matthieu Rey and Peter Harling Additional Reading
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