dr rahaf aldoughli
@r_aldoughli
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Asst.Professor @LancasterUni. Senior Editor, Middle East Section at Cogent Social Sciences. Researching political behaviour,sect(ism),and fighters’ motivations.
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Joined November 2012
While I couldn’t celebrate holding my book in person amid the fall of the #Assad regime, I’m proud to share the culmination of 10 years of research:. 📖 Romanticizing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Identity, Gender, and Belonging. This is the first book on masculinity in Syria,
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Once am back to teaching at Lancaster, I will schedule this video clip for my lecture on Orientalism and internalised colonial legacies reinforced by local actors!.#ميريام_فارس #Qatar2022 #FIFAWorldCup.
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Today on the train: Are you #Ukrainian ?.Me: no, I am #Syrian . Him: Oh very small world 🌝.Me: hehe yea small but divided by “civilised”/“uncivilised” 😄.
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I don’t know how I should express this, but my journal article titled “What is Syrian Nationalism?” has been recognised as top cited article at one of the most prestigious journals dedicated to nationalism studies! It was published at Nations &Nationalism #topcitedarticle ☺️
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Thrilled to announce the publication of my article “What is Syrian nationalism? Primordialism &romanticism in official Baath discourse “.This is an outcome of several years of research and mostly forms the basis of my next book project❤️#romanticism #Syria.
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Returning to this very spot at Damascus University after years of exile feels strangely therapeutic. The #Assad statue that once stood here shaped my research on militarization, identity, and belonging in Syria. Years ago, I wrote this short piece reflecting on identity and
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ب٢٠١٦ انتشر فيديولدحض الصورةالنمطية عن اللاجىء السوري و يلي هي "انو في سوريين وبيشبهوا الاوروبيين".فيديو استشراقي واقصائي بامتياز.اليوم مجموعةشبابية من السوريين بتنشر صورة للتعبير عن العنصرية بجملة"شكلك موسوري"لتكون مثال عنصريةداخليةعلى بعضنا. via @YouTube
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Pleased to announce that during my sabbatical from Lancaster uni, I will join @HarmoonCenter as Director of Research Unit. I am thrilled to join a stellar community of Syrian researchers &academics. Watch this space for great opportunities & workshops 💜.
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Delighted to share that I’ve officially signed my book contract with @ManchesterUP Thanks to the amazing editor @dobsac for his efforts to smooth the review process. My book is: Constructing the Syrian Nation: Politics, Ideology and Gender.
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My latest for @newlinesmag .The struggle over faith by both regime and opposition factions. #Assad #Syria #Islam .Assad Remakes Syrian Faith to Suit the Regime’s Needs - New Lines Magazine
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#Thread .My latest with the @AtlanticCouncil on five decades of the rule of #Assad and how he won the war using #Nationalism .1.
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حملة @molhamteam #حتى_آخر_خيمة ليست فقط انقاذ لعائلات هُجرت و أقصيت بل ايضا دعوة لاعادة التفكير بأولويات خطاب انتفاضات السوريين من ٢٠١١ حتى اليوم. كرامة و عدالة. تصميم: عبد المهين بدوي
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#thread.IT'S OUT.Securitization as a Tool of Regime Survival:The Deployment of Religious Rhetoric in al-Asad's Speeches-The Middle East Journal: This is abt locating Islamism as something originating nt from jihadist groups but selfclaimed secular state.
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النقاش حول الحجاب في الدول المستبدة شائك،معقد وتتقاطع معه السلطة السياسية مع الدينية. في #سوريا وحتى عام ٢٠٠٣ كُنا نتلقى العصي من مدربات الفتوة لو دخلنا باب المدرسة و ابقينا الحجاب على الرأس!او مثلا الرشق بالماء الباردة لو لم نكن سريعات في خلعه قبل تأدية تحية العلم الصباحية!.
لا أعمم تجربتي على الجميع، لكني بقيت دون حجاب في الموصل حتى سنة التخرج من الجامعة، وكمية الاحتقار والإزدراء و "البسامير" التي كنت أسمعها، ويسمعها أخي، لم تنته حتى غطيت شعري بقطعة القماش المقدسة.
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My latest 🎉.Bringing loyalist and opposition factions together:The prospects for reconciliation in new Syria | @MiddleEastInst.This piece is part of @KingsCollegeLon research ,which is part of @XCEPT_Research funded by UK Aid
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Very proud to be part of this network. It started as an idea two years ago and now we are launching its beginning. Syrian researchers in UK, please join us so we can build a fostered academic community of Syrian academics.
We would like to announce the creation of the Syrian Network of Academics and Researchers in the UK. The network aims to foster collaboration between Syrian academics and researchers who research topics related to Syria or who have an interest in the Syrian context (1/3).
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My latest w @AzzamAlkassir abt the cold geostrategic evaluation of #HTS &the logic of embracing-at least from a”Western”perspective-the lesser evil. Empower Syrians Not Warlords: Against the re-branding of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham @ACMideast
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How pathetic and sad when you see a war lord welcomed with an applause! A major earthquake that killed thousands of life and #Assad still preaching about terrorism, national victory and steadfastness!.#Syria_earthquake
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This is beyond disgusting &it is humiliating for every British citizen. It again tells you that if you do not face your colonial & imperial past, you end up reestablishing repetitive dynamics of colonial privileges &racist whiteness. #PrinceWilliamBreakUpTour
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I ve never thought that I would hear disgraced comments on #Assad from hardcore loyalists. In conversation with some yesterday living in Damascus, Assad is no longer held as symbol of unity&survival (not the crux of stability for loyalists anymore).Ideological shift is looming!.
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هذا خطاب شعبوي.نحول الغضب والحزن لاداة جهدوضغط لتحقيق العدالة والمحاسبة وليس دائرة فارغة من الكره والحقد و تفتيت بلد. هناك جيل كامل يربى اليوم ولايفهم لا استبداد الأسد الماضي و لا طلبات ثورة ٢٠١١ بل يرى أن هناك حرب تطحن به. الحقد سيأكلنا جميعا اما العدالة تبني وطن ولوعلى مدى بعيد.
حولوا أحزانكم إلى حقد، وليكن عنيفا وقاسيا، فربما يحقق بعض العدل، أما العدل المطلق، فهو عند الله وحده.
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فريق @molhamteam بيعطيناالأمل باستعادة الإرادةو الفاعلية السوريةو بيذكرناأنو التغييرمالح يكون بقيادات سياسية تقليدية مُستثمر فيها و مرهونة سياسيا.الثورة قبل ماتكون مطالب سياسية هي بناء قاعدة مجتمعية بتساند بعضها و بتنصر المظلوم. العسكرة مهماكانت اضطرارية بتفشل ببناء ثقافة الحرية.
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I will be in #UN #Geneva tomorrow to participate in a side-event for the Session of the #HumanRights Council. This event ll highlight the ordeal of more than 7000 Syrian women in #Assad prisons. As an academic Syrian woman,I aim 2 highlight how Baath ideology s always used women1.
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@UNReliefChief Not “rightly feel abandoned”-THEY WERE ABANDONED. The cost of UN failure is the loss of thousands of lives! Accountability, justice and resignation is what should be expected!.
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Happy 2022 from freezing Chicago ❄️ We go places but it suddenly hit me that I miss Damascus so much or more I miss familiar (to me) tired Damascene faces & broken hearts and roads 🌏 May this year bring peace to #Syria & its people.
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#Assad has been labelling protesters as “atheists” since his speech to ulama in 2014. Most of what came in his last speech is a repetition of his 2014; 2017; 2019 speeches and in his speech when he launched the opening of Cham Centre for countering terrorism and extremism.
Assad in his last statement from Damascus is saying “Who started the uprising in #Syria are atheists who used mosques and chants Allahu Akbar, They left the country and we got rid of them”
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في فقرة "على بساط أحمدي" والذي يقدمه @k7ybnd99 تم التركيز على خطاب جامع للسوريين و من فيهم "جمهور مناطق النظام و مؤيديه" من خلال مقاربة الآلام و سردية فساد النظام كقاسم مشترك بين كافةالسوريين. قلت سابقا، ان المرحلة الحالية تستدعي ألا نكتفي بسؤال : لماذا هناك مؤيدين للأسد؟ (١).
"جابوه بآخر نفس عم يقول أنا زلمة وهدول كلاب".شهادة صادمة لأحد الناجين من "المسالخ البشرية". #ع_بساط_أحمدي / الحلقة السابعة @k7ybnd99. #تلفزيون_سوريا
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My piece with @MiddleEastInst on how #Assad has mobilized female religious scholars in post 2011 to maintain survival.
A thinly veiled strategy: Assad's co-optation of women religious leaders | Guest contributor @r_aldoughli writes while some criticize the inequality between religious scholars & #Syrians, one question remains: how has #Assad mobilized female scholars?.
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My piece:'Syria, masculinity and how the Assad regime's priorities have changed during pandemic' via @ConversationUK 1.
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Some pundits r now assessing ideological transformations of #Taliban based on allowing women 2 interview them free of face veil. Such analyses reveal the configuration of women’s bodies as subjects of political domination/hegemony & insisting on framing women bodies as a vessel1
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My latest journal article “Romancing the Nation:Politics of Love &Blood in Syrian popular Culture”. This piece explores how emotive relations demarcated boundaries of identity &belonging which weakened civic engagement &transition to democracy in #Syria
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Some reviewer of my article asking me to argue whether #Assad survival is due to “triumph of state institutions” and that he “won war” because ppl chose order/state institutions rather than ISIS/Islamists. 🐒🐸🤦🏼♀️😷👀 Such binaries hurt the heart& mind.
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What a disgusting title! @LSEMiddleEast why would such debates be hosted by your centre? .And is it organiseby Assad's apologists?
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@M_Balsam I m not against belly dancing &women’s choice of how to present themselves,but we can’t ignore that this song w its captions&images reinforce colonial representations of us. In such a highly politicised&culturalised event,there shud ve been stronger diverse&plural presentations.
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Lama al-Basha from al-Tall (city in southern Damascus). She was detained in 2014, today her family found her name among the released list by #Assad regime. She was tortured 2 death. Syrians Are Not Numbers.
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