Samer Abboud
| Email: | samer.abboud@villanova.edu |
Samer Abboud is Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies at Villanova University. He is the author of two editions of a book called Syria (Polity Press) and the forthcoming book Managing Syria’s Conflict: Enmity and Punishment as Illiberal State-Building (Columbia University Press). Samer has also published several book chapters and journal articles about the Syrian conflict.
During the Winter 2024 term he will serve as the Fulbright Chair of North American Politics at Carleton University in the Department of Political Science. During this term, he will be starting a new research project on Syrian refugee lifeworlds in Ottawa where he explores the past, present, and imagined futures of Syrians in Ottawa as they relate to their experiences living in Syria, during the war and subsequent displacement, and settlement in Canada.
Recent Publications
‘The Decision to Return to Syria Is Not in My Hands’: Syria’s Repatriation Regime as Illiberal Statebuilding. Journal of Refugee Studies.
Narrating Crisis through the Loyalist Witness: Victims and Perpetrators in Joud Said’s Matar Homs and Darb al-Sama. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
Imaging Localism in Post-Conflict Syria: Prefigurative Reconstruction Plans and the Clash Between Liberal Epistemology and Illiberal Conflict. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
Reconciling fighters, settling civilians: the making of post-conflict citizenship in Syria. Citizenship Studies.