Haian Dukhan

@DukhanHaian

Syrian academic based in the UK. Author of "State and Tribes in Syria"

Edinburgh, Scotland
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Joined August 2015

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    4 Oct 2018

    My book: 'State and Tribes in Syria Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns' is available for pre-order through Routledge website. Release date is: 17th of January 2019.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Fascinating presentation by Dr Andrew Shryock titled "The Guest is Prisoner of the Host:The Perils and Privileges of Captivity among Jordan’s Balga Tribes" at

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  3. 7 hours ago

    This short piece was presented in LSE latest conference on Syria which I took part in last December.

    NEW BLOG | In , tribes are a critical group for the maintenance of power. They are mobilised & co-opted by several of the warring factions, from armed opposition groups to the regime’s military factions, to serve their own interests. …
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    Apr 27

    The world I grew up as a shepherd in a remote village along the Syrian-Iraqi borders couldn’t be more different than the world my family left behind a few months ago, when they left home after five years under ISIS. My new essay in .

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  5. Apr 26

    "In sum then, the Islamic State's Sri Lanka attacks follow the logic of targeting citizens of countries in the coalition against the Islamic State in particular and targeting more generally Christians and other disbelievers in the world who do not submit to the Islamic State"

    Check out my latest post on , looking at logic behind the attacks as per the Islamic State's own discourse (in particular new al-Naba' issue) on targeting citizens of coalition countries and more generally attacking 'muharibeen Christians'
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    Apr 18

    Every single member of Assad’s kleptocracy needs to feel serious heat - they’ve all benefited from mass atrocities. Would welcome many more moves like this.

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    Apr 17

    Colleagues from SWAR () - 's sister project - have produced a special issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (19:1[2019]) looking at sectarianism and regime formation co-edited by & . A must read.

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  8. Apr 14

    Playing with fire: The impact of manipulating tribal identities by the authoritarian regimes on the Civil War in Syria. A Presentation by Dr. Haian Dukhan. Time & Location. Francis Scott Key Hall, 4282 Chapel Lane, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

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  9. Apr 12

    Looking forward to speak at the University of Maryland in May at their conference titled: "Tribes and Tribalism (Re-)Assessing Society in the Middle East and How We Talk About It"

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    Apr 11

    My new essay in is out today: How American democracy didn't die

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    Apr 11

    My biggest project ever: The Islamic State Archives, making my collections of Islamic State internal documents & records available to the public, w/translations & analysis. In collaboration with & . Please consider making a donation

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  12. Mar 28

    Glad to be speaking at this conference about sectarian mobilisation in Deir Ezzor. Great organising done here!

    The keynote from has done a wonderful job of setting out the thesis & key literature on sect based conflict. getting a lot of kudos. Nader suggests to read this for overview of Fanar’s recent work
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    Mar 11

    “As I lay there, it wasn’t that I wanted to die. It was that I wished I’d never existed.” The stories recounted today are just the tip of the iceberg— survivors of sexual assault in Syrian government custody start to speak.

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  14. Mar 6

    first review of my book is out:

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    Mar 2

    Residents of Rukban camp want to travel north to opposition controlled areas & not to be sent to regime controlled areas where they fear arrest, conscription

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    Feb 22

    Ironically, that picture makes the opposite point of what is being suggested here. That poor man brutalized by a foreign jihadi is a local! Those foreign terrorists weren’t invited, and need to be taken back by their countries to deal with them, rather than keep them in Syria.

    This is the terrorist who just wants to come “home...”
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    Feb 22

    Returned last week from visit to Deir Ezzor. You know what struck me? lack of planning for day after. No strategy to rebuild, no plan for ISIS trials, no real support for local councils. It may look like victory against ISIS, but I fear the broader effort is failing.

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    Feb 7

    Our local researcher in reflects on daily life in the capital, the sufferings of ordinary people and the growing anger which is gradually growing beyond the ability of the regime to contain. Highly recommended read on

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  19. Jan 28

    Me and my friend Fraser Saunderson will go skydiving together . We are dedicating the experience to Children 1st, a charity that does a fantastic job for the children of Scotland. Support Our cause.

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    Jan 7

    It remains baffling to me how events can be arranged on the Arab world, without any any Arab speakers, or even people who know Arabic. Incredible. I was just invited to an event on Yemen, which has 9 speakers set up: no Yemenis, no Arabs, and I think no Arabic speakers.

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