Democracy Courage Tributes<\/a>\u00a0award on behave of the Human Rights movement in Syria by the World Movement for Democracy at Jakarta- Indonesia.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ziadeh has been one of the major players in the “Damascus Spring,” a period of intense debate about politics, social issues and calls for reform in Syria after the death of President Hafez al-Asad in 2000.<\/p>\n
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He is on the board of directors for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy ( CSID) in Washington, D.C., Senior adviser for the Institute of Islamic Strategic and Socio Political Affairs in London (IISA), and a member of the Advisory Group for the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm, Sweden. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board for the Islamic World Initiative at USIP for “Reform and Security in the Muslim World” program, a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the American Political Science Association (APSA), The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and the International Studies Association (ISA).<\/p>\n
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His most recent book is\u00a0Power and Policy in Syria: Intelligence Services, Foreign Relations and Democracy in the Modern Middle East<\/em>(I.B.Tauris ,2011). He has written ten books:\u00a0The Clash of Values Between Islam and the West<\/em>, with Kevin James O’Toole (2010),\u00a0Political Islam in Syria<\/em>\u00a0(2008),\u00a0Decision Making and Foreign Policy in Syria<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0The Challenges of Reform in The Arab World: Islam, Identity, Modernity and Globalization<\/em>\u00a0(2006),\u00a0The Intellectual Confronts Power: Dialogues of Syrian Civil Society\u00a0<\/em>(2005), and\u00a0The Near Peace: The Syrian\u2013Israeli Negotiations<\/em>\u00a0(2005\u2014the first book written by a Syrian on the subject),\u00a0The Ideology of Renaissance in Contemporary Arab Discourse<\/em>\u00a0(2004),The Question of Renewal in Contemporary Islamic Discourse<\/em>\u00a0(2004),\u00a0Modernism and Post-Modernism in Western Philosophy<\/em>\u00a0(2003), andHuman Rights in the Arab World<\/em>\u00a0(2000).<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has edited five books:\u00a0The Democratic Transition between Spain and Syria<\/em>, with George Irani (2009),\u00a0The Struggle for Reform in Syria<\/em>(2006),\u00a0Reform in Syria: Between Domestic and International Politics<\/em>\u00a0(2004),\u00a0Towards Civil Society in Syria\u00a0<\/em>(2004), and\u00a0Islam and Political Thought: Democracy and The West<\/em>\u00a0(2000).<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ziadeh has published studies, research projects and policy papers for many international institutions including United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), Freedom House and Global Integrity both in Washington D.C, The Global Leadership Project at the Clinton Global Initiative. He has published articles in magazines in Arabic, English, Spanish and French.<\/p>\n
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He\u00a0has lectured at Harvard University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, Rutgers University, Cornell University, George Washington University, New York University, UCLA, UC\u2013Davis, Roger Williams University, Kennesaw State University, Tufts University, Oxford University, St. Andrews University, National Academy of the Sciences, King’s College\u2013University of London, Edinburgh University, University of Colorado, Savannah Council on World Affairs, University of Ljubljana-Slovenia, Jagiellonian\u00a0 University in Poland, Lund University \u2013Sweden, Gutenberg University-Mainz-Germany, University of Amsterdam, LUISS University in Italy , Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona (UAB)-Barcelona, National University-Rosario-Argentina, International Christian University in Tokyo, Cairo University, American University of Beirut, Al-Baat University in Amman, University of Jordan, and Damascus University.<\/p>\n
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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,\u00a0Al-Hayat<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radwan Ziadeh is a Visiting Scholar at Lehigh University, and Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in Washington D.C. He is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the managing editor of the Transitional Justice in the Arab World Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}