‘A gripping social and political chronicle of the causes and consequences of Syria’s 2011 revolution, and its continuing global fallout.’

Coming Autumn 2025 from Hurst Publishers.

 Writer. Speaker. Researcher.

Bridging geopolitics, history, socio-economics, and culture, to help shed some light on facets of international affairs and Middle East mosaics, and on their context within our collective global interests.

Articles

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The idea of Syria is worth saving
The idea of Syria is worth saving

The world has spent decades brandishing arbitrarily drawn maps depicting Syrians in sectarian and separatist terms. Yet this reductive approach ignores another, deeper tradition of Syrian communality that must now be nurtured and protected.

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Mosaics

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A decade after Assad’s biggest chemical massacre in Syria, justice delayed is justice denied
Syria, Chemical Massacre
A decade after Assad’s biggest chemical massacre in Syria, justice delayed is justice denied
Syria, Chemical Massacre

Despite the mountains of evidence confirming the Assad regime as the perpetrator of this century’s worst chemical atrocity on 1500 civilians in greater Damascus, justice remains denied ten years on.

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Syria, Chemical Massacre

Media

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Monocle Radio / The Foreign Desk: The spectacular fall of the Assad regime
Syria, Monocle Radio
Monocle Radio / The Foreign Desk: The spectacular fall of the Assad regime
Syria, Monocle Radio

How did the rebels manage to topple Bashar al-Assad’s regime so quickly? How inclusive will any new government realistically be? Who in the region wins and who loses? Andrew Mueller speaks with Syrian-born writer Rime Allaf…  

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Syria, Monocle Radio

 

 
 

The Syrian Golan Heights

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Rime Allaf is a Syrian-born writer, political analyst, and communications strategist. She was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House from 2004 to 2012, in the Middle East and North Africa Programme. She has published numerous analyses and articles on the region, with Syria being the focus of her area of expertise, and continues to write, speak, and advise on Syrian affairs. She is on the Board of Directors of The Day After, a renowned Syrian-led civil society organization working to support a democratic transition in Syria. She is also on the Advisory Council of the Middle East Institute’s Syria Program.