Motasem Abuzaid

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DPhil student in Politics, University of Oxford.

United Kingdom
Research Profile

revolutions; collective action; urban policing; ethnic and political violence under authoritarian contexts in the Middle East

Middle East
Arabic, English, French, Turkish

Carceral Urbanism in Damascus and Aleppo: Trajectories of Socio-spatial Policing and Resistance (Master’s thesis at Georgetown, 2022, and presented at UCL's Conflict and Change Workshop, 2023); "Networks, Urban Space, and Mobilization in Hama and Aleppo" (in progress and presented at APSA 2022 & VIP workshop, 2023); co-founder of the Syria Urban Research Project (SUR Project) and co-organizer of an upcoming workshop, with support from APSA and Beirut Urban Lab, titled "The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East," to be held in October 2023 in Istanbul.

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