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Lawfare Live: What is going on in Syria?

Benjamin Wittes, Scott R. Anderson, Charles Lister, Ammar Abdulhamid
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 10:01 AM
Join the Lawfare team for a discussion on the ongoing situation in Syria on Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. 

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On Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will talk to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson, Middle East Institute Senior Fellow Charles Lister, and Syrian pro-democracy activist Ammar Abdulhamid about Syrian rebels toppling Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Assad fleeing to Russia, Israeli troops crossing the Israel-Syria border, and what it all means for the broader region.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Charles Lister is a senior fellow and the Director of the Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs at the Middle East Institute. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Hurst & Oxford University Press).
Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian author and pro-democracy activist currently based in Silver Spring, Maryland where he arrived with his family as political refugees in September 2005. His recent book, "The Irreverent Activist," a series of brief reflections written over two decades, is now available through Amazon.

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