Syria: The destruction of prisons illustrates the end of an era marked by repression

"Fifty-four years after the military coup perpetrated by Hafez al-Assad, 24 years after his son Bashar succeeded him and 13 years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the fall of the regime in Damascus is a historic event, both for Syria and for the region as a whole" - Ziad Majed in Le Monde.

War in Syria: Assad, ten years later, reigns over a heap of ruins

"A well-informed political scientist, Ziad Majed gives an overview of the Syrian conflict, which broke out on March 15, 2011, ten years ago. For him, Assad's regime is, by far, the first responsible for the disaster. And he and the djihadist camp need each other. He answers questions from Baudouin Loos in the special report entitled "The long Syrian night, a debacle for humanity" in the daily Le Soir".

Foreword to the book Syria: Borders, Boundaries, and the State

The following text is Nassima Neggaz and Ziad Majed's foreword to "Syria: Borders, Boundaries, and the State", edited by Matthieu Cimino and published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2020.

The book gathers a series of papers presented in a conference organized at the University of Oxford in November 2017.

Syria: 9 years of revolution and war

An interview with Ziad Majed on Syria - France 24 English

The district of Jobar - Damascus

There are numerous places, regions, villages, cities and urban neighborhoods that come to mind when we remember the beginnings of the Syrian Revolution and the stages of its transformation into armed struggle that went before the war currently raging. Among these places, the Jobar district, which stretches from the east to northeast of the Syrian capital, has a special status, and this for several reasons.

“The Assads’ Syria” Nevermore: Ziad Majed Speaks of Revolution

An Interview on "The Orphan Revolution"

"When I finished the book in Arabic at the end of November 2013, Razan Zaitouneh, who through her work embodies the revolution values, along with Samira Al-Khalil (a former political prisoner and an activist from day one in the revolution) Wael Hamada (activist and husband of Mrs. Zaitouneh) and Nazem Hamady (a lawyer, activist and poet), had not yet been kidnapped. In my opinion their kidnapping is one of the most brutal and ugly acts, both for what it meant and for its location (in Douma in the heart of the “liberated” East Ghouta), as well as for the responsibility for the kidnapping by a large, militant Islamic group that controls the region. Therefore, I amended the dedication in the French version, which was issued in Paris, to read: To Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Al-Khalil and Faïek al-Meer. The latter played a very important role in the revolution, having previously spent 12 years in the Assad prisons, and was arrested on October 7, 2013".

The Apathy of a Hodgepodge of many Leftists & Arab Nationalists

Three new arguments dominate today the discourse of many leftists and Arab nationalists who pretend complete neutrality towards what’s happening in Syria.

Originally written in Arabic, this article was translated by Farah Shoukair.

Some leftists and Syria

Notwithstanding over 15,000 dead, tens of thousands of testimonials, text and visual evidence of  the carnage inflicted by the Syrian regime on citizens denied their political freedoms by one father, his son and their next of kin, some Arab and Lebanese "recalcitrant" leftists have yet to cease and desist from defending  the Damascus regime.