Conf * The Syrian Revolution * 17-20 mai 2021 * En ligne

Série de 4 webinaires organisée par l’Ifpo et l’ANR SHAKK du 17 mai au 20 mai 2021 de 15h à 16h30 (Beirut time) pour les 10 ans de la révolution syrienne. Interviendront des chercheurs et activistes syriens et de la région MENA sur quelques enjeux importants de la révolution et de la guerre. Consulter les détails du programme sur le carnet Hypothèse de l’ANR SHAKK et sur le site de l’Ifpo. L’enregistrement préalable est requis pour chaque séance. 


The 10th Year of the Syrian Revolution4 webinars

ANR SHAKK & Ifpo

Ten years ago, in the wake of the Arab Spring, the Syrian Revolution began. Syrian men and women of all ages and all social and religious backgrounds took to the streets of their country’s cities and villages to demonstrate and demand freedom and dignity. The history of the Syrian Revolution began with a collective and courageous political gesture. The voices of those who had been silent for 40 years for fear of repression were heard. 

Bashar al-Assad and his regime have used every possible means to silence dissenting voices: live fire on demonstrators, snipers, arbitrary arrests and detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, assassinations, massacres. Bombings, the siege of villages and towns, chemical weapons, barrels of explosives dropped on homes from helicopters, forced displacements, etc. threw millions of Syrians on the roads of exile.

The UNHCR counts about 6.6 million internally displaced people in Syria, 5.5 million refugees in neighbouring countries and 1 million in the rest of the world. Syrians are the largest refugee population in the world. The war has probably claimed more than 700,000 lives. There are about 100,000 missing persons, mostly in Syrian jails, but also in the hands of jihadist and Islamist factions. The Syrian regime, as well as HTS (formerly al-nosra) which controls the Idleb region, have not stopped arbitrary arrests and detentions. 

Despite the ten years that have passed since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, many Syrians continue their activism from their place of exile. 2021 marks an anniversary that they are seizing on in different ways to both commemorate the initial political gesture, the desire for freedom that the demonstrators proclaimed together across the country, and also to remind that their struggle continues and that the spirit of the Syrian Revolution is still present among them.

Through a series of 4 webinars on important issues of the Syrian revolution, researchers and activists from Syria and MENA region will present their work.


  • Monday 17th May 03:00-04:30 pm (Beirut time) – Women’s roles and experiences in the revolution and warRegistration

Speaker: Zaina Erhaim is an award winning journalist and feminist, working as gender and communications consultant for different international organizations in MENA region, she also writes for different outlet such as NewLines magazine, Open Democracy and others.

Zaina has an MA in International Journalism from City University of London and BA in media from Damascus University. She contributed to three books related to women, journalism, and war, and made two series of short films highlighting the women’s perspective of the Syrian conflict. 

Moderator : Charlotte Al-Khalili (UCL, Anthropology)


  • Tuesday 18th May 03:00-04:30 pm (Beirut time) – Enforced Disappearances Registration.

Speaker Yasmin Fedda is an award winning filmmaker and artist. She will present her film Ayouni. A vimeo limited link to watch the film will be sent to everyone who register (with subtitles). 

Noura and Machi search for answers about their loved ones – Bassel Safadi and Paolo Dall’Oglio, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria. Faced with the limbo of an overwhelming absence of information, hope is the only thing they have to hold on to. ‘Ayouni’ is a deeply resonant Arabic term ofendearment – meaning ‘my eyes’ and understood as ‘my love’. Filmed over 6 years and across multiple countries in search of answers, Ayouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible.

Discussant Wafa Mustafa is an activist and journalist. In her advocacy she covers the impact of detention on young girls and women and families.

Moderators: Cécile Boëx (CéSor-Ehess) & Anna Poujeau (Ifpo-CNRS)


  • Wednesday 19th May 03 :00-04 :30 (Beirut time) – Trajectories, settlements and narratives of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan – Registration.

Speaker: Imad Amer (Ifpo-Magyc) – Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: The Politics of No Policies

The lack of clarity and consistency on behalf of the Lebanese authority’s politics towards the Syrian refugees has left question and concerns in this regard unresolved to date.  Indeed, the absence of one or more specific institutional references, the variety of influential actors and decision makers, as well as the glaring absence of national public policies from the central government directing local authorities’ responses have created a highly complex legal and political landscape.  

Yet, despite the variety of actors involved, including but not restricted to, informal local bodies such as sectarian groups, political parties, Non-governmental organizations and international entities, the central government has nonetheless retained a degree of control on few specific aspects vis a vis this file. As such, education, security, and major international funding and response remained exclusive to and under the mandate of the Government and its associated relevant ministries.  Arguably, the Government has also capitalized on the Syrian refugees crisis as a means to amass international funds while simultaneously lagging behind on granting refugees their basic human rights. 

In this meeting, we will discuss the policies of the Lebanese state through the laws issued by the Parliament, resolutions and decrees issued by the central government and relevant ministries, their impact and their implementation. The presentation will also explain the role of various municipalities and their interaction with such policies, and the role of security institutions in the response to the refugee crisis. 

Discussant: Jalal al-Husseini (Ifpo)

Moderators: Kamel Doraï (Ifpo-MEAE) & Anna Poujeau (Ifpo-CNRS)


  • Thursday 20th May 03:00-04:30 pm (Beirut time) – Séance en français – Organisation politique des révolutionnaires : les conseils locaux et provinciaux (2012-2018)Registration.

Speaker: Yahya Hakoum (Phd candidate, SciencesPo CERI) – L’émergence des conseils locaux dans les zones rebelles en Syrie entre 2011-2018

Durant la révolution et le conflit qui suivit, au sein des zones libérées de la présence du régime, les conseils locaux furent créés dans le but de pallier à l’absence d’institutions administratives et étatiques. Selon les contextes socio-politiques, les conseils locaux ont pris des formes, des trajectoires et des mobilisations différentes en fonction des répertoires d’actions et des ressources utilisées par les acteurs. Dans cette communication, je décrirai et analyserai les différentes caractéristiques de ces conseils locaux afin de mesurer la portée des transformations socio-politiques engendrées par les mobilisations et les nouvelles pratiques de participation citoyenne suscitée par l’adaptation de l’idée de la création d’un conseil local.

Deux cas où les conseils locaux sont toujours actifs seront approfondis à partir d’un recueil de données qui s’appuiera sur une documentation de leurs projets et actions et des mobilisations en cours dans la zone d’Idlib sous influence islamiste et dans la zone nord d’Alep sous influence turque. 

Discussant: Assaad Al-Achi, directeur exécutif de Baytna.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Jeanne Pawella (16 mai 2021). Conf * The Syrian Revolution * 17-20 mai 2021 * En ligne. Radicalisations. Consulté le 4 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/t6mq


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