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Articles posted by Majid Rafizadeh
Majid Rafizadeh, an Iranian-Syrian, is a scholar, policy analyst and human rights activist. He came the United States on a Fulbright teaching scholarship and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also a contributing editor for Harvard International Review. Formerly, he conducted research at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and participated in the National Council on US-Arab relations’ program.
More than fifteen months have passed since the first shots were fired in Syria and, here we are, still trying to define whether what’s going on there today is a war, a civil war or “just” a conflict. According to some estimates, more than 16,000 people have already been killed and, with no solution More »