Aghiad Ghanem
Fellow Researcher, SciencesPo Centre for International Studies
Aghiad Ghanem is a fellow researcher at SciencesPo’s Centre for International Studies (CERI) and at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies (IFEA). He holds a master and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science and International Relations from SciencesPo Paris. His research mainly concerns the Alawite groups facing the Syrian war, and the transnational networks they mobilize in contexts of conflict. It mostly relies on fieldwork carried out in Syria (Latakia, Damascus), Turkey (Hatay, Mersin, Istanbul, Ankara), and Lebanon (Beirut, Tripoli, Akkar). Aghiad Ghanem is French with Syrian background and speaks Arabic and Turkish in addition to French and English.