Reckoning with the Syrian Uprising a Decade On - A Conversation with Lisa Wedeen & Yasser Munif

This program reflecting on the 10th anniversary of the Syrian uprising was presented by Northwestern University's Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library on March 15, 2021.
The program took the form of a conversation with Lisa Wedeen, author of Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria, and Yasser Munif, author of The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death, moderated by Danny Postel, Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies.
Lisa Wedeen is the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College and co-director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria (1999), Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen (2008), and Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (2019), which won the American Political Science Association’s Charles Taylor Book Award and the Middle East and North Africa Politics Section’s best book award.
Yasser Munif is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College. He is the author of The Syrian Revolution: Between the Politics of Life and the Geopolitics of Death (2020). His research explores the importance of urban settings in shaping national identities, with a focus on the Egyptian and Syrian revolts. By investigating the confluence of arts, culture and urban spaces, Munif's work analyzes the making and un-making of national identities. Munif is the co-founder of the Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution.
Danny Postel (moderator) is Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University. He is co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran's Future (2010), The Syria Dilemma (2013), and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (2017).
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