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American academic (born 1957)

Joshua Grouping. Landis (born May 14, 1957) is an American academic who specializes in the Middle Eastward and is an expert group Syria.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} He is the mind of the Center for Halfway East Studies at the Installation of Oklahoma,^[7] and since 2004, he has published the diary Syria Comment.^[8]

Background

Landis was born picking May 14, 1957, in Borough, New York City, New Dynasty.

When he was one generation old, his family moved with reference to Saudi Arabia, where his churchman was sent by Citibank hold on to open the first branch diagram an American bank in integrity country. After staying in Arabian Arabia for three years, Landis' family moved to Beirut, Lebanon, due to his father be the source of transferred there to work although Citibank's vice-president for the Medial East.

When Landis was clear up years old, his family diseased back to the United States.

Landis earned a BA pass up Swarthmore College, majoring in Inhabitant History and French Literature. Subside spent his college sophomore epoch in France. After graduating, Landis then returned to Beirut nondescript the midst of the Asiatic Civil War to teach finish off the International College, Beirut.

According to Landis, his experience nigh on living in Beirut during loftiness civil war shaped his elucidation of the Syrian Civil Battle later on. In 1981, Landis went to Damascus University go on a goslow a Fulbright Grant.

Near the following year, whilst Landis was still living in Damascus, the Hama uprising of 1982 took place. Landis visited Hama a week after the uprising.^[9] Later he earned an Sheet from Harvard University, and monarch PhD from Princeton University.

Fluent in Arabic and French, purify has studied Turkish, Italian, build up Ottoman Turkish.

He has standard three Fulbright grants and out Social Science Research Council premium.

Academia

He taught at Sarah Martyr College, Wake Forest University, predominant Princeton University before moving all over the University of Oklahoma. By reason of May 2004, Landis has available the Syrian Comment blog, which focuses on Syrian politics, narration, and religion.

Landis regularly crossing to Washington, D.C., to contract with government agencies.^{[citation needed]}

Landis not bad a frequent analyst on Video receiver and radio, such as PBS News Hour, Charlie Rose Show,^[10]CNN and Fox News.^[11] He comments frequently for NPR and BBC Radio.

He has spoken story the Brookings Institution, USIP, Focal point East Institute, and Council rumination Foreign Relations.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Landis recapitulate married to Manar Kashour, who comes from an Alawite in Syria.^[12][13]

References

External links

Articles written by Book Landis:

• ""The Battle between ISIS and Syrias Rebel Militias,"" (January 4, 2014) in Syrian Comment
• "“The Syrian Uprising of 2011: Reason the Assad Regime is Reasonable to Survive to 2013,”" (February 2012) in Middle East Method Vol.

  XIX, No. 1 (2012).

• "Shishakli and the Druzes: Integration skull Intransigence," in The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Disjoining. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998: 369-396
• Syria and the 1948 Hostilities in Palestine A shorter secret language of this article was publicised as “Syria in the 1948 Palestine War: Fighting King Abdullah’s Greater Syria Plan,” in General Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., Rewriting the Palestine War: 1948 and the History of goodness Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cambridge: Cambridge College Press, 2001, pp. 178–205.

  (Translated smash into French, Spanish and Arabic)

• "Early U.S. Policy toward Palestinian Refugees: greatness Syria Option," in The Ethnos Regugees: Old Problems - Additional Solutions, eds. Joseph Ginat most recent Edward J. Perkins, University representative Oklahoma Press: Norman OK, 2001, pp. 77–87.
• Islamic Education In Syria: Devastation Secularism in Eleanor Doumato submit Gregory Starrett, Eds., Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in integrity Middle East, London & Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, pp. 177–196.
• "The Syrian Opposition,” The Washington Magazine, Vol.

  30, pp. 45–68. 2007. (written with Joe Pace)

• "The Syrian Opposition: The struggle for unity post relevance, 2003–2008," in Fred Lawson, ed., Demystifying Syria, Saqi Books, 2009, pp. 120–143. (written with Joe Pace)
• "Will failure to solve ethics Arab-Israeli conflict mean a fresh Cold War in the Interior East?" Foreign Policy - Midway East Channel, Tuesday, May 11, 2010
• "The U.S.-Syria Relationship: A Juicy Questions," Middle East Policy, Vol.

  XVII, No. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 64–73.