Stanford, California
Monday, October 19, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Add to calendarStanford Humanities Center · Room Levinthal Hall
After close to 14 years of cruel struggle, the “eternal” Assad regime was overthrown. Syria came out of that eternity quite shapeless. This talk explores the trajectory of Syria between the beginning of the revolution to the present day, and tries to assess some of the future possibilities.
Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, International Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center, is a Syrian writer and translator. He is the author of nine books on Syria, prison, contemporary Islam, Arab intellectuals and intellectual life, and experiences of the atrocious. He is also a founding member of the online magazine aljumhuriya.net where he writes regularly. Al-Haj Saleh was a fellow at the Berlin Institute of Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) in 2017-2018 and a fellow at EUME (Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe) in 2018–19. From 2019–22, he received a scholarship from the German Pen Club. Currently he lives in Berlin.
Yassin Al-Haj Saleh’s English-speaking blog: https://yassinhs.com
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Stanford Humanities Center Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford, CA 94305 Room Levinthal Hall
Monday, October 19, 2026 · 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM