Did Syria’s Uprising Start with Kurdish Farmers?
Decades of dispossession made drought a local catastrophe as grievances and rainfall primed the northeast to rise up in 2011
Nadia Asaad
Nadia Asaad is an affiliated researcher with the Cercle des Économistes Arabes in Paris, currently working under the TRACHMED project (Exploring Transnational Challenges: Climate Change, Migration, and Energy Insecurity in the Mediterranean) an international, interdisciplinary research and staff exchange program funded by the European Commission. Her work has appeared in the ANNALS Belgrade Law Review, the Journal of Democracy, The Washington Institute’s Fikra Forum, and PassBlue. This research was supported by TRACHMED project funding.
