“Syria After Assad”
Joshua Landis, University of Oklahoma
Joshua Landis is Sandra Mackey Chair and Director of the Center for Middle East
Studies in the Boren College of International Studies at the University of
Oklahoma.
He publishes frequently in policy journals such as Foreign Affairs, Middle East
Policy and Foreign Policy. His book: Syria at Independence, Nationalism,
Leadership, and Failure of Republicanism will be published by the Arab Center for
research and Policy studies this coming year, and he writes and manages
“SyriaComment.com,” a newsletter on Syrian politics.
Dr. Landis has written many scholarly articles and is a frequent analyst on TV,
radio, and in print and has appeared many times on the Australian Broadcasting
Corp. He is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute in Washington DC. He has
received three Fulbright Grants to support his research in Syria and won numerous
prizes for his teaching. He is past President of the Syrian Studies Association and
has consulted with many branches of the U.S. government.
Professor Landis has lived over 15 years in the Middle East and 4 in Syria. He
spent most summers in Syria before the uprising on 2011. He was educated at
Swarthmore (BA), Harvard (MA), and Princeton (PhD). He is married to Manar
Kashour and has two sons, Jonah and Kendall.