Sami Moubayed

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian historian and author of Under the Black Flag (IB Tauris, 2015). 

Author Articles

Members of the Syria constitution-writing committee attend a ceremony to mark the committee’s opening meeting, in Geneva, October 30. (AFP)
Conflicting agendas, lack of clear timetable logjam Syria’s constitutional talks
December 07, 2019
A merchant counts Syrian pound notes in Damascus, September 11. (AFP)
Syrian currency hits all-time low
November 22, 2019
Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the north-eastern part of Hasakah on the Syrian border with Turkey, November 8. (AFP)
In north-eastern Syria, Kurds’ future hangs in limbo
November 16, 2019
A Syrian-led process. UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen (C), Syrian MP Ahmad Al-Kuzbari (L) and head of Opposition Syrian Negotiations Commission Hadi Al-Bahra attend a meeting of the Syria Constitutional Committee in Geneva, October 31.(AFP)
Syria's Constitutional Committee convenes with historic opposition involvement
November 02, 2019
Russian military police members stand outside an armoured vehicle along a road near the north-eastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakah province, October 24. (AFP)
Sochi deal keeps US troops, Kurds out of oil-rich area
October 26, 2019
Big winner. A Syrian government soldier raises a Syrian national flag atop an electrical wiring pole by the border with Turkey in the town of Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, in northern Aleppo, October 17. (AFP)
Damascus-SDF deal denies Turkey victory but at cost for Syrian Kurds
October 19, 2019
A US soldier watches as Syrian Democratic Forces remove military fortifications during the implementation of the security mechanism along the Turkey-Syria border in north-eastern Syria, August 22. (AP)
Russia-Turkey-Iran plan for Syria shuns Kurds, US
September 28, 2019
A win for Damascus? Syria’s President Bashar Assad (L) chairs the central committee of the ruling Baath party in Damascus, last October 7. (AFP)
US still absent as Syrian Constitutional Committee sees light
September 21, 2019
No solution in sight. A Turkish military vehicle is driven near the town of Maer Hatat in northern Syria’s Idlib province, August 20. (AFP)
Syrian opposition hopes dashed as Idlib turns into giant chessboard
September 14, 2019
People inspect a stall at the Damascus International Trade Fair, August 30. (AFP)
Washington’s threats fall on deaf ears in Syria
September 07, 2019
Bad blood. Lebanese soldiers patrol next to a Hezbollah flag in the southern village of Aitaroun, on the border with Israel, August 27. (AP)
Israeli drone attacks threaten to disrupt border talks with Lebanon
August 31, 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) speaks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow, April 8. (AFP)
Turkish intervention in Idlib may never come
August 24, 2019
Rival Druze leaders of Lebanon Walid Jumblatt (R) and Talal Arslan in Beirut. (NNA Lebanon)
Meeting at Baabda Palace ends Druze tensions
August 17, 2019
A 2014 file picture shows ISIS fighters waving flags during a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province. (Reuters)
ISIS names heir to Baghdadi from Saddam’s officer corps
August 17, 2019
Simmering tensions. Lebanese Druze sheikhs attend the funeral of one of two aides of Refugee Affairs Minister Saleh Gharib, who were killed in an incident that Gharib called an assassination attempt, in Ramlieh, Lebanon, July 5. (Reuters)
Druze tensions threaten Lebanese government’s stability
July 27, 2019
Vulnerable lives. A Syrian girl at al-Hol camp for the internally displaced people in Hasakah governorate in north-eastern Syria, on July 23. (AFP)
Dire conditions in al-Hol and Rukban camps fuel fears of ISIS resurgence
July 27, 2019
A Syrian Army soldier stands next to a Syrian flag in Umm al-Mayazen in the countryside of Daraa. (Reuters)
Violence creeps back into major Syrian cities
July 20, 2019
Tightening noose. Lebanese MP for Hezbollah Amin Sherri gestures during a meeting for the party’s bloc in Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik, July 11. (AFP)
US sanctions on Hezbollah to carry long-term impact in Lebanon, Middle East
July 13, 2019
Lebanese State Minister for Refugee Affairs Saleh Gharib attends a news conference in Khaldeh near Beirut, July 1. (Reuters)
Mount Lebanon shoot-out triggers fears of intra-Druze strife
July 06, 2019
A boy holds the Free Syrian Army flag during a protest calling for an end to the strikes and for Ankara to open the frontier at the Atmeh crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border, in Idlib governorate, Syria, May 31. (Reuters)
Idlib operation risks morphing into ‘war of attrition’
June 29, 2019