Visiting Research Scholar, Zaid Al-Ali, gives his opinion on Syria's Troubling New Order.

Zaid Al-Ali is an independent scholar and a lawyer.  He specializes in constitutional negotiations, peace negotiations and commercial arbitration.  His primary field of academic interest is comparative constitutional law and constitutional negotiations in Arab-majority countries (also known as the Middle East). His legal practice tends to focus on disputes in the energy sector. 

This semester, Zaid will be teaching ANT 306: Current Issues in Anthropology: Law, Human Rights, and Politics in the Middle East.