Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Motasem completed his MA in Sociology at Marmara University and is currently enrolled in the Master's in Arab Studies (MAAS) program at Georgetown. He is primarily concerned with coercive formations in authoritarian regimes and how they intersect with sub-national and patrimonial affiliations. His MA thesis explored the politicization of the sect and tribe in post-colonial Syria and Iraq as inter-institutional compact actors. At Georgetown's MAAS program, he intends to further explore how variance in regimes can be determined through the interaction of these actors with social power forces and institutions -- the coercive apparatus in particular.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Political Economy
Ethnic Groups
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Syria
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
All Middle East
Specialties
Political Violence
Coercive Formations In Authoritarian Regimes
Ideologies And Social Classes
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Turkish (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA
| 2022
| Arab Studies
| Georgetown University
MA
| 2020
| Sociology
| Marmara University
BA
| 2016
| Management
| Şehir University
BA
| 2015
| Psychology
| Şehir University
Abstracts
Reassessing the Ascendancy of Assad and Hussien: The Institutional Blueprint of Authoritarian Resilience in Syria and Iraq, 1968–1979
Networks, Urban Space, and Mobilization in Hama and Aleppo
Spearheading Local Mobilization: Social Structures and Insurgency in the Syrian Countryside
