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ABOUT
Matthieu Rey holds a PhD in history from the Ehess (Paris). In his main researches, he focus on the political system in Iraq and Syria as case study to understand the Middle Eastern policy-building and state-building during the fifties. He sheds light on political engineering of power and demonstrates how parliaments were central in the decision-making process. He intends to publish a book on the parliamentary system in Iraq and Syria between 1946 and 1963. He has been fellow doctorate in the French Institute of Near East in Damascus between 2009 and 2013 and witnessed the Syrian events on the ground for two years. He is also perfectly fluent in Arabic. He was fellow researcher in the College de France (Paris) in 2012-2013. Apart from his main researches, he delivered talks and published articles on elections in the Middle East, development policies, the Cold War and the ‘Arab spring’.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Development
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Foreign Relations
Middle East/Near East Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Syria
Mediterranean Countries
Specialties
Cold War Study
Parliamentary System, Political Organization And T
Languages
French (native)
Arabic (fluent)
English (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| History
| Ehess
BA
| 2006
| Arabic
| Aix en provence
Abstracts
The Soviet-Syrian "Honey Moon" reconsidered (1945-1957)
Long term and short term Syrian history in the current events
Building Cities and Borders from below: Armenians and Urban Cultures
