Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026A new ACLED report for businesses finds that violence in Syria has risen by 400% since the fall of the Assad. With collective punishment and rais of ISIS activities the key question is “Can the risks be managed?” acleddata.com/report/reeng...acleddata.comReengaging Damascus: Syria’s capital offers opportunity, but not without riskDamascus remains less exposed to political violence than other governorates in post-Assad Syria, pointing to a cautiously positive outlook despite residual security threats. 000
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026When does the temporary become destiny? And when do profoundly different people create a shared meaning that makes coexistence possible? On my Substack in Arabic 👇 #Legitimacy #PoliticalTheory #StateBuildin open.substack.com/pub/anasjoud... 020
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026False Centrism- when balance becomes a tool of domination . This piece argues that ‘both sides’ rhetoric about Syria is not neutrality but a false equivalence. It offers two reader-level tests to distinguish genuine neutrality from manufactured neutrality.” open.substack.com/pub/anasjoud...open.substack.comالوسطية الزائفة — حين يصبح التوازن أداةً للهيمنة“الطرفان مخطئان”. 010
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 17/04/202680 years since Syria's Jalaa. April 1946 wasn't a military victory — but something rarer: meaning emerging from shared action, not rhetoric. The question today isn't "what do we want?" It's "what are we doing together?" www.thelevantica.net/thmnwn-man-l...thelevantica.netثمانون عاماً على الجلاء: حين كان الفعل المشترك ممكناًليست المشكلة في سوريا اليوم غياب السياسة، ولا حتى غياب الفاعلين، بل في غياب الرابط الذي يجعل من الأفراد جماعة، ومن الجماعة مشروعاً. هذا الرابط لم يكن يوماً معطىً طبيعياً، بل كان دائماً نتاج لحظة تعبئة... 000
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Systematic Desecration Syria is not in a 'transitional phase.' That framing hides reality, not explains it. What's happening is a governance system where the public sphere is deliberately unprotected. Power belongs to whoever enforces it. #Syria #Analysis open.substack.com/pub/anasjoud...open.substack.comالاستباحة نظام، لا فوضىما لا يقوله خطاب “المرحلة الانتقالية” 000
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Memory Without Vengeance: Choosing Not to Repeat the Past. My new articol on substack .substack.comAnas Joudeh (@anasjoudeh)Memory Without Vengeance: Choosing Not to Repeat the Past In Hiroshima, after everything was over, people did not ask: whom should we hate? How do we take revenge? They asked a simpler—and harder—... 000
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 27/11/20251️⃣ I took part this week in the Syrian Cultural Week – “Semana de la Cultura Siria” at the University of Granada, hosted by the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. A thoughtful space that brought together Spanish and Arab scholars to reflect on Syria beyond headlines and noise. 110
Anas JOUDEH @anasjoudeh.bsky.social · 23/11/20251️⃣ In one of the long meetings an American journalist friend who lived every chapter of the Iraq war. In one of our talks about Russia’s “ready-made” Syrian constitution, he laughed: “We were full occupiers in Iraq and still couldn’t impose a constitu 110
Reposted by Anas JOUDEHOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025There was a brief moment after Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed last December when the impossible felt possible in Syria. That moment, @anasjoudeh.bsky.social argues in a new commentary, has, sadly, evaporated. (1/5)tcf.orgA Catch-22 of Suspicion Imperils Syria’s Transition to DemocracyThe Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation 235
Reposted by Anas JOUDEHOrder from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025@anasjoudeh.bsky.social writes that, until Syria addresses its trust deficit with steps like measured decentralization, its transition to democracy will remain stalled before it begins. tcf.org/content/comm... (5/5)tcf.orgA Catch-22 of Suspicion Imperils Syria’s Transition to DemocracyThe Century Foundation The Century Foundation The Century Foundation 111