Kheder Khaddour

Nonresident Scholar
Middle East Center

Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.

Kheder Khaddour is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. His research centers on civil military relations and local identities in the Levant, with a focus on Syria.

Previously Khaddour has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago. He has conducted independent research for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, and has worked as an independent journalist for Reuters.

Khaddour’s most recent publications include Eastern Expectations: The Changing Dynamics in Syria’s Tribal Regions (co-authored with Kevin Mazur, February 2017); How Regional Security Concerns Uniquely Constrain Governance in Northeastern Syria (March 2017); Local Wars and the Chance for Decentralized Peace in Syria (March 2017) and Back to What Future? What Remains for Syria’s Displaced People (January 2018).

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- September 02, 2019
Much More Than a Border
Albukamal and Qaim lie on a Syrian-Iraqi boundary that has had regional implications for decades.
- February 22, 2019
A Line in the Sand
The Syrian-Iraqi border has become a point of confrontation among regional and international powers.
- November 05, 2018
Syria’s Troublesome Militias
By integrating pro-regime armed groups into state structures, the Assad regime has created a hybrid military order.
- November 29, 2017
Survival Through Destruction
In the midst of Syria’s wartime devastation, the regime saw a path to its own revival.
- September 27, 2017
A Shattered Relationship
Why the conflict against the Islamic State will profoundly reshape the ties and networks in Deir Ezzor.
- March 22, 2017
I, the Supreme
The Syrian regime devolves some power over reconstruction, mainly to retain it.
- October 10, 2016
Eastern Approaches
Why local tribal calculations will determine what happens outside Syria’s heartland.
- August 17, 2015
Shielded by the State: Assad’s Monopoly Over Syria’s Public Institutions
The Assad regime’s control of Syria's public institutions and the provision of essential services will need to be broken in order to solve the Syrian crisis.