Publications

PhD Thesis

Al Kassir, A. 2021. Change and Continuity in the Thought and Praxis of Salafi-Jihadism: studying the Case of al-Nusra Front in Syria between 2012 and 2018. Birkbeck, University of London.

Articles

Al Kassir, A. 2026. Islamist Perspectives on the Concept of the Civic State in the Arab World, Journal of Constitutional Law in the Middle East and North Africa, Issue 05, May 2026, 44-59, http://www.jcl-mena.org/assets/submissions/issueS02/2-Islamic-Perspectives-EN.pdf 🔓
Al Kassir, A. 2024. “Intentionality” in radical flank effects: reflections on Al-Nusra Front’s discourse of moderation between 2012–2017. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2024.2373079 🔓
Al Kassir, A. 2023. Survival Strategies of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham: The Trilogy of Administration, Militarism, and Discourse. Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies. 🔓
Al Kassir, A. 2021. Arab Jihadism: Nikāya and Tamkīn between ISIL and al-Qaeda. AlMuntaqa, vol. 4, no. 1, Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies, pp. 117–23, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.31430/almuntaqa.4.1.0117 🔓

Forthcoming:

Book chapter: “Syria: National Identity and the Legacy of Orientalism.” In Routledge Research Handbook of the Levant. London: Routledge.
A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Shifts in British Foreign Policy Towards Syria (2011-2019)
Processes of Ideological Framing and Political Appropriation of “Sunni-Arabism”: A Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Jihadist Groups in Syria and Iraq after 2011.

Policy papers

Al Kassir, A. 2023. Media Manipulation: How HTS Crafts and Disseminates its Propaganda Messages. Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies.
Al Kassir, A. 2023. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and the Aftershocks of the Earthquake. Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies.
Al Kassir, A. 2022. HTS in Afrin: Threats and prospects for civil society. The New Arab.
Al Kassir, A. & Aldoughli, R. 2021. Empower Syrians Not Warlords: Against the re-branding of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Atlantic Council.
Al Kassir, A. 2018. Formalizing Regime Control over Syrian Religious Affairs. Carnegie-Middle East.
Al Kassir, A. & Al-Hawat, S. 2017. IS’ strategic management of death. Open-Democracy.
Al Kassir, A. 2016. Realpolitik and the Syrian Conflict. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Al Kassir, A. 2014. Understanding calls for reinstating the Islamic State. Open-Democracy.

Other publications

The Making of a Sunni-Arab Sect in the Arab East (in Arabic). Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies. 02 November 2023.
The Future of the Delicate Equilibrium in North-West Syria (in Arabic). Harmoon Center for Contemporary Studies. 10 October 2023.
KCCRC Analysis: Interview with Dr Azzam Al Kassir, Kurdistan Conflict and Crisis Research Center. 02 December 2021.
Why Kabul Has an Echo in Idlib. Diwan, Carnegie-Middle East. 17 September 2021.
The Decline of Arab Left (in Arabic). Raseef22. 18 April 2019.
The dialectics of Science and Atheism (in Arabic). Raseef22. 4 March 2019.
Transgenerational cloning in the Arab World (in Arabic). Raseef22. 30 October 2018.
Supporting Dictators: Fear or Poor Imagination? (in Arabic). Raseef22. 16 August 2018.
Aesthetics of Orientalism (in Arabic). Raseef22. 23 September 2017.
How ISIS became the richest terrorist group in the world (in Arabic). Raseef22. 30 June 2017.
History of the Mukhabarat in the Arab World (in Arabic). Raseef22. 27 June 2017.
Arab music rapture: from revival to Halal or Haram (in Arabic). Raseef22. 1 August 2016.
Liberalism in International Relations (in Arabic). Syrian Researchers Initiative. 12 February 2016.
Realism in International Relations (in Arabic). Syrian Researchers Initiative. 3 October 2015.

MA Dissertation (2014)

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Citation: Azzam Al Kassir. Hezbollah in Syria: Applying the Paradigm of Structure, Chance, and Choice, MA Dissertation, University of Exeter, September 2014.