Statut chercheur associé

À l’Ifpo depuis décembre 2008

Département Études contemporaines

Site Damas Abou Roumaneh

Directeur du projet "Syrie, Liban, Irak" à l'International Crisis Group pour le Proche-Orient.

Current fields of academic research

• The Iraqi insurgency
• The Sadrist movement
• Tribalism in Iraq

Recent Academic Publications

• “Saddam Hussein et la débâcle triomphante Les ressources insoupçonnées de Umm al-Ma‘ârik”, Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, n117-118, 2007, p. 157-178. [résumé]
• “Les dynamiques du conflit irakien”, Critique Internationale, n°34, 2007/1. pp.29-43. [résumé]
• “La mouvance Sadriste en Iraq : Lutte de classes, millénarisme et Fitna”, in Sabrina Mervin (ed.). Les mondes chiites et l’Iran. Paris : Karthala/Ifpo, 2007 (with Hamid Nasser). pp. 267-286.
• “The Falluja Syndrome: Taking the Fight to the Enemy that Wasn’t”, Campaigning Journal, Fall 2006. pp. 26-30.
• “La guerre Américaine en Irak et en Afghanistan : entre vision messianique et ajustements tactiques”, Politique étrangère, Winter 2005 (with Gilles Dorronsoro). [texte intégral]

Presentations in Academic seminars

• "La mouvance sadriste en Irak : lutte de classes, millénarisme et fitna", Ifpo Damas, séminaire contemporain, 10 mai 2009.
• “Writing the History of Iraq: Historiographical and Political Challenges”. The Graduate Institute, Geneva, November 2008.
• “Uncovering Iraq: Trajectories of Disintegration and Transformation”. Georgetown University, Washington, October 2008.
• “The Sadrist movement”. IDRC Meeting on Political Islam, Beirut, October 2008.
• “Iraq: What Next?”. London School of Economics, London, September 2007.
• “Saddam Hussein, du coup d’Etat à la guerre terminale : ‘Asabiya ou tyrannie ?”. Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut, April 2007.
• “Effets de système et rationalité du tyran : la chute de Saddam Hussein en 2003”. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Beirut, April 2007.
• “Social science under fire”. Institute of Political Science, Rennes, November 2005.
• “Integration of Islamism in Middle Eastern political processes”. Foreign Office & French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, June 2005.
• “Iraq’s future”. Institute of Political Science, Paris, March 2005.
• “Iraqi Perspectives after the elections”. French Center for International Studies (Centre d’Etudes des Relations Internationales), Paris, December 2004.
• “The Iraqi Ba’th Party between two wars (1991-2003)”. Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin, December 2003.

Other Recent Publications

• “Paris, éclaireur d'Obama au Moyen-Orient”, Le Figaro, 18 November 2008.
• “العراق: ما لم تقله لنا كتب التاريخ”, Al Quds Al Arabi, 29 March 2008.
• “لدروس المستقاة من إخفاق الحوار الفرنسي - السوري”, Al Hayat, 18 March 2008.
• “France-Syrie, l'heure de vérité”, Le Monde, 21 December 2007 (with Robert Malley).
• “الجيل الضائع في العراق: امريكا لا تهزم اعداءها بل تصنعهم”, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 11 December 2007.
• “A lesson in Iraqi illusion”, The Boston Globe, 10 July 2007 and International Herald Tribune, 11 July 2007 (with Robert Malley)
• “Dialoguer avec la Syrie, une nécessité”, Le Monde, 2 June 2007 (with Rob Malley).
• “Eyes Wide Shut”, Le Monde Diplomatique (English edition), May 2007 (with Joost Hiltermann).
• “هل يمكن القطع مع الجمود حول مسألة الجولان؟”, Al-Watan, 9 April 2007.
• “سيناريو على الطريقة اليوغوسلافية في الشرق الأوسط”, Le Monde Diplomatique (Arabic edition), January 2007.
• “Convulsion en Oriente Proximo”, El Mundo, 17 December 2006
• “Engaging Syria and Iran Won’t be An Easy Ride”, The Financial Times, 15 December 2006 (with Rob Malley).
• “مقاربة عملية لإشراك سورية في استقرار المنطقة”, al-Hayat, 25 November 2006.
• “Containing a Shiite Symbol of Hope”, Christian Science Monitor, 24 October 2006 (with Rob Malley).
• “Unité de façade des shiites irakiens”, Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2006 (with Hamid Yasin).
• “العراق: ما يحول دون قيام الدولة”, Al-Akhbar, 18-19 July 2006.
• “Qui sont les insurgés irakiens ?”, Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2006 (with Mathieu Guidère).
• “The Enemy we Hardly Know” The Boston Globe, 19 March 2006 (with Rob Malley).
• “A Counter-Intuitive Strategy for Iraq”, The Financial Times, 22 November 2005 (with Rob Malley).
• “How the U.S. Can Salvage Iraq”, International Herald Tribune, 11 January 2005 (with Rob Malley).

Academic background

• Currently writing PhD in Paris at EHESS, Paris.
• MsC diploma with distinction from EHESS, Paris, June 2001.