Radwan Ziadeh
Founder and director, Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria.
Last Contribution:
The Double-Edged Sword of Social Media
Contributor Biography
Radwan Ziadeh is a visiting scholar at The Institute for Middle East Studies at Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was most recently a Prins Global Fellow at Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University and a visiting scholar at The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
Before that, he was Reagan–Fascell Fellow at National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, and visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York City. He was also a visiting fellow at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London, and at Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard University (2008–2009). In 2007–2008 he was a Senior Fellow at United States Institute of Peace in Washington.
Radwan is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria, and is the co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington. He is the managing editor of the Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project.
He is on the board of directors for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy in Washington, and is a member of the Advisory Group for the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm, Sweden.He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Islamic World Initiative at USIP for “Reform and Security in the Muslim World” program, the Middle East Studies Association, the American Political Science Association, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the International Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
He is the author of many studies, policy papers, and books, the most recent of which is Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations and Democracy in the Modern Middle East (I.B.Tauris, 2011).
He is a frequent political commentator on several U.S., European, and Middle Eastern media outlets such as Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, B.B.C. ,and Al-Hurra. He also writes a bi-monthly op-ed for the leading Arab daily, Al-Hayat.
