TITLE: Syria at the Crossroads: Hopes and Challenges

WHEN: Tuesday, January 21st, 12:00-1pm EST, at The Fares Center, 160 Packard Ave, Medford, MA and on Zoom

Please join the Fares Center for a lecture and Q&A on Syria at the Crossroads: Hopes and Challenges with Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor of International Relations and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS)

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Bio: Dr. Marwa Daoudy is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) and the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). Prior to Georgetown University, Dr. Daoudy was a lecturer at Oxford University (UK) in the department of Politics and International Relations, a fellow of Oxford’s Middle East Center at St Antony’s College and a visiting scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In 2023-2024, she was awarded a Global Fellowship by the Wilson Center for International Scholars and was affiliated with the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) and the Middle East Program (MEP).

Dr. Daoudy’s research and teaching focus on critical and human security studies, environmental and climate security, climate justice, water politics, negotiation theory, peace negotiations, and Middle East politics.

Dr. Daoudy's second book on The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security (Cambridge University Press, 2020) won the 2020 Harold and Margaret Sprout Prize by the International Studies Association, awarded for the best books in the field of environmental studies. Her first book The Water Divide between Syria, Turkey and Iraq: Negotiation, Security and Power Asymmetry (CNRS Editions, 2005) received the Ernest Lémonon Prize by the Institute of France at the French Academy (Académie Française). Her third book titled Climate Justice in the Middle East and North Africa: Rethinking Security and Vulnerability is under contract with Cambridge University Press.