Guide to Specialists

Radwan Ziadeh
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 1, 2007 – July 31, 2008

ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Project Focus:
Democratic Change in Syria

Download print-quality image

Languages: Arabic

Radwan Ziadeh is a founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies. His project provides an insider’s account of the reform movement in Syria. A prominent advocate for human rights and reform in Syria, Ziadeh has frequently given talks in Syria and other states in the Arab world, Europe, and the United States on the status of human rights and democratic reform in Syria.

Before its closure, Ziadeh was editor of Tyarat magazine in 2001–2002 and is currently a secretary of the Syrian Organization for Transparency. He was a researcher with the United Nations Development Program project Syria 2025, and he was named best political science researcher in the Arab world by Jordan’s Abdulhameed Shoman Foundation in 2004. He was also a principal figure and activist in the Damascus Spring, a period of intense debate about politics and social issues and calls for reform in Syria after the death of President Hafez al-Assad in 2000.

Ziadeh has published studies, research projects, and articles in local and international magazines in Arabic, English, Spanish, and French. He has also written for a wide range of Arabic publications, including Al-Hayat (a London-based Arabic newspaper) as well as Almustaqbal, An-nahar in Lebanon, Alghad in Jordan, and Albadil in Cairo.

Publications:

• Decision Making and Foreign Policy in Syria. (Cairo: Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2007) (in Arabic)
• The Democratic movement in Syria. (2005) (translated into English and Spanish)
• The Intellectual Against the Power in Syria. (Cairo Centre for Human Rights Studies, 2005) (in Arabic)
• The Near Peace: The Syrian–Israeli Negotiations. (Arab Union Studies Center, 2005)
• The Ideology of Renaissance in the Contemporary Arab Discourse. (Al-Taleaa, 2004) (in Arabic)
• The Renewal Question in the Contemporary Islamic Discourse. (Al-Madar, 2004) (in Arabic)
• Human Rights in the Arab World . (Arabic Culture Centre, 2000) (in Arabic)