Ziad Majed
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator for Middle East Pluralities
- Department: History and Politics
- Graduate Program(s): International Affairs, International Affairs, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society Development, Diplomacy and International Law
- Office:G-006
- Office Hours:By appointment
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Professor Majed is the Elliott E. Burdette Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and teaches Middle East studies and writes on Lebanese, Syrian and Arab affairs as well as on regional political transitions and crises. Since 1994, he has been involved in research work and reform campaigns related to political processes and civil society causes in Lebanon and other Arab countries. For the last twenty years, Majed has been regularly publishing articles and papers in Arabic (in Now Lebanon, Al-Quds al-Arabi, Al-Hayat, Aljazeera Center, the Journal for Palestine Studies, Daraj and Megaphone) and in French (in L'Orient Litt茅raire, Mediapart, Le Monde, L'Express, Lib茅ration and AOC).
He is a board member in Lebanese, Syrian and French cultural institutes and organizations, and a lecturer in international festivals and annual conferences.
Education/Degrees
- PhD in Political Sciences, IEP - Sciences-Po, Paris
- DEA in Political Sciences, IEP - Sciences-Po, Paris
- MA in Arabic Literature, the Americain University of Beirut
- BA in Economics, the American University of Beirut
Publications
Books
Dans la t锚te de Bachar Al-Assad, with Subhi Hadidi and Farouk Mardam-Bey, Actes Sud, Paris, 2018.
Iran and its four Arab fronts, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 2017
Sourya, Al-thawra al-Yatima听(Syria, the Orphan Revolution), Sharq al-Kitab, Beirut, 2014 (In Arabic).
Syrie, La R茅volution Orpheline, Actes Sud et l鈥橭rient des Livres, Paris, 2014.
鈥楢n Rabi鈥� Bayrout wal Dawla Annakissa听(On the Beirut Spring and the Unachieved State), Dar Annahar, Beirut, 2006. (In Arabic).
Editor,听Building Democracy in Yemen: Women's Political Participation, Political Party Life and Democratic Elections, International IDEA, Stockholm, 2005.
Editor,听Building Democracy in Jordan: Women's Political Participation, Political Party Life and Democratic Elections, International IDEA, Stockholm, 2005.
Editor,听Building Democracy in Egypt: Women's Political Participation, Political Party Life and Democratic Elections, International IDEA, Stockholm, 2005.
Chapters in Books
Foreword to "Lettres 脿 Samira", Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, 脡ditions des Lisi猫res, Toulouse, 2021.
鈥淟es mots des r茅volutions鈥� in听Il 茅tait une fois les revolutions, L鈥橧nstitut du Monde Arabe et Seuil, Paris 2021.
Foreword to "厂测谤颈补:听Borders, Boundaries, and the State", with Nassima Neggaz, edited by听Matthieu Cimino and published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2020.
鈥淩efugees in Jordan and Lebanon鈥� in听Escaping the Escape, Bertelsmann foundation, Berlin 2017.
鈥淟es russes ont r茅ussi 脿 inverser le rapport de forces militaire鈥�, in听Sur la听revolution syrienne,听Editions La Lenteur, Paris 2017.
鈥淚ntroduction: A new foundational moment among conflicts and changing parameters鈥� in听Political developments in Arab countries since 2011, the Amercian University of Beirut and L鈥橭rient des Livres, Beirut 2017.
鈥淲hat are the challenges after Arab Revolutions鈥� in Hassan Krayem, Ed.听The Arab Spring: Revolutions for Deliverance from Authoritarianism, The Arab Network for the Study of Democracy, Beirut 2014
"Consensus democracy and political representation" in Elizabeth Picard and Alexander Ramsbotham, Eds,听Reconciliation, reform and resilience: positive peace for Lebanon, Conciliation resources, London, 2012
鈥淣ew forms of cooperation?鈥� in听The Future of the Mediterranean, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Berlin, 2011.
Articles in Academic journals and policy papers published by research centers
鈥淪yrie: revolution, barbarie et occupations鈥�,听Confluences, Paris 2021.
鈥淟鈥檃gonie du consociativisme libanais鈥�, AOC journal, Paris, October 2020.
鈥淏eirut鈥檚 explosion and the death of a system鈥� (Arabic), Journal for Palestine Studies, September 2020.
鈥淭he French initiative in Lebanon鈥� (Arabic), Aljazeera Center for Studies, August 2020.
鈥淭he necessary relation between resistance to Foreign Occupation and struggle against local despotism鈥澨�(Arabic), Journal for Palestine Studies, June 2019.
鈥淭rump, the Golan heights and the violation of International Law鈥澨�(Arabic),听Aljazeera Center for Studies, May 2019.
鈥淎rab Normalization with Assad鈥檚 Syria as part of the counter-revolutionary process鈥澨�(Arabic), Aljazeera Center for Studies, February 2019.
鈥淭he South-Syria Russian sponsored accords鈥澨�(Arabic), Aljazeera Center for Studies, July 2018.
鈥淪yria, the regime of violence鈥澨�(French), AOC journal, Paris, December 2018.
鈥淭he reasons for the Lebanese Saudi political crisis鈥澨�(Arabic), Aljazeera Center for Studies, February 2018.
鈥淣ew American and Russian approaches in Syria?鈥� (Arabic),听in Aljazeera Center for Studies, August 2017.
鈥淟ebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf鈥澨�(Arabic),听in Aljazeera Center for Studies, March 2017.
鈥淪yria after Aleppo: the Russian strategy鈥澨�(Arabic) in Aljazeera Center for Studies, September 2016.
鈥淓xistential crisis in Lebanon鈥� (French and Spanish), in Afkar/id茅es, Spring 2016, published by the Estudios de Politica Exterior (Madrid) and the Institut Europ茅en de la M茅diterran茅e (Barcelona).
鈥淜urds in North East Syria: Internal calculations and external alliances鈥� (Arabic), in Aljazeera Center for Studies, August 2015.
鈥淭he evolution of Hezbollah鈥檚 involvement in Syria鈥澨�(Arabic), in Aljazeera Center for Studies, June 2015.
鈥淒emocracy in the Balance: The Complex Dynamics of the Arab World Make Outcomes Far from Certain鈥�, in Connections, Dayton, Ohio, 2014 (published by the Kettering Foundation).
鈥淪ixty four years since the Palestinian Nakba鈥� (Arabic), in The Journal for Palestine Studies, issue 90, Spring 2012, Beirut
Hezbollah and the Lebanese Shiite community, The Aspen Insitute, Washington DC, 2010.
Translation
Yassin Al Haj Saleh,听La question syrienne,听(Arabic to French, with Nadia Leila Aissaoui and Farouk Mardam Bey), Actes Sud, Paris 2016, (235 pages).
Affiliations
- Coordinator, The Arab Network for the Study of Democracy
- Opinion writer, Al-Quds Al-Arabi
Research Areas
- Consociational democracy
- Political transitions in the Middle East
- Political Islam
- Political reforms and electoral systems in the Arab countries
- State and Society in Lebanon and Syria
- The question of Palestine
