Joshua M. Landis

Articles on the web

• Syriacomment.com: A daily newsletter on Syrian politics and history.

  • Read by 2,000 daily.
• Quoted by The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Slate Magazine, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
  
  
• "Syria Private Universities," Forward, July 2007, pp. 8-11.
  
  
• Joshua Landis & Joe Pace, “The Syrian Opposition,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, pp. 45-68.
  
  
• "Islamic Education in Syria: Undoing Secularism," Also Translated into Arabic by The Tharwa Project, a Syrian-based think-tank. Published. Also published as “Syria: Secularism, Arabism, and Sunni Orthodoxy,” in Eleanor Doumato and Gregory Starrett, Eds., Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East, London & Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, pp. 177-196.
  
  
• "Syria and the 1948 War in Palestine." A shorter version of this article was published as “Syria in the 1948 Palestine War: Fighting King Abdullah’s Greater Syria Plan,” in Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., Rewriting the Palestine War: 1948 and the History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 178-205. (Translated into French and Arabic)
  
  
• "Early U.S. Policy toward Palestinian Refugees: the Syria Option," in The Palestinian Regugees: Old Problems - New Solutions, eds. Joseph Ginat and Edward J. Perkins, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman OK, 2001, pp. 77-87.
  
  
• "Shishakli and the Druzes: Integration and Intransigence," in The Syrian Land: Processes of Integration and Fragmentation. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998: 369-396.
  
  
• Dialogue with Syria: Opportunity or Ambush?” Bookings Institute, Washington DC., Oct. 2006.
• Lebanon Struggles to Maintain Stability After Assassination, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Nov. 22, 2006.
• "Iraq War Sapping US Influence in Lebanon," Council on Foreign Relations: NYC, Posted to CFR website, Nov. 3, 2006
• “Syria's role in the Mid-East,” Charlie Rose Show: PBS, Aug. 11, 2006.
• “Syria: Conflict with West Spurs Economic, not Political, Reform,” Arab Reform Bulletin, Published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Volume 4, Issue 5. June 2006. 
• “Damascus Rife With Rumors on Whether UN’s Lebanese Investigation Implicates Syrian Leadership,” Council on Foreign Relations: NYC, Posted to CFR website, September 21, 2005.
• “Don’t Push Syria Away,” New York Times, op-ed, September 17, 2005
• “Report From Damascus,” Council on Foreign Relations: NYC, Posted to CFR website, March 8, 2005
  
• The United States and Reform in Syria," The Syria Report, Issue N°18 / May 2004, pp. 4-6.
  
• Why Lebanon Should Repair Relations with Syria, Cham Press,  Jan 30, 2006
• Syrians fear the anarchy that an open, liberal government might bring,” Dallas Morning News,  January 8, 2006.
• Who Killed Hariri? The "Pushed Against the Wall" Thesis" as ... Cham Press,  Jan 22, 2006
• Hussam Taher Hussam, the 'Masked Witness', Cham Press, Nov. 30, 2005.” 
• “Syria is being Set Up to Fail: A Leaked Letter from Washington, Cham Press,  October 24, 2005.
• “Is Syria Ready for Regime Change?”(in Arabic) Syria News, Damascus, May 24, 2005.
• “Creating A Syrian Dream, Where None Exists Today,” The Daily Star, Lebanon, July 28, 2004.

Education:

• Princeton University (Ph.D., 1997: Near East Studies)
• Harvard University (M.A., 1984: Center for Mid East St.)
• Swarthmore College (B.A., 1979: Eur. Hist. and French Lit.)

Experience:

• University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma (1999-
• Princeton University, New Jersey (1997-99)
• Wake Forest University, North Carolina (1994-97)
• Sarah Lawrence College, New York (1991-94)
• International College, Beirut (1989-91)

E-Mail landis@ou.edu

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