Zouhair Ghazzal – Syrian wars of domination without hegemony – 16/12/2014
We have the pleasure to invite you to a conference given by Associate Prof. Zouhair Ghazzal (Dept of History, Loyola University, Chicago) on the Syrian wars of domination without hegemony. The conference will take place at IFEA Conference Room16 December 2014 at 18:30 Followed by a discussion conducted by Ass. Prof. Seda Altuğ (The Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University). Abstract: Considering that the problems in Syrian society have been longue durée and chronic in their nature, it does not make much sense to look for any “beginning” of the current civil war in terms of deeply-seated causal elements. We relate the question of beginning to that of the imaginary: Syrians, like the rest of the Arabs, and