A program of the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), focusing on Arab World affairs. CDDRL is a research center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Migration and Citizenship
Scholarly Publications
News
Stanford Scholar Examines Sectarianism and Urban Segregation in Baghdad [VIDEO]
February 2016
As part of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy speaker series, Director of The Markaz: Resource Center Mona Damluji examined the impact of the US-led occupation of Iraq on sectarian-based...
Military approach will not work in Syria, says former Stanford scholar
November 2015
On November 17, CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD) hosted Lina Khatib, a senior research associate with the Arab Reform Initiative, for a special talk on the Syrian crisis.
Events
We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
January 9, 2018
This event is co-sponsored with The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies. ABSTRACTHow can we make sense of the tragedy in Syria?
Oil and Urban Life in Kuwait
April 20, 2016
AbstractIn this talk Farah Al-Nakib will discuss her recently released book Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life (Stanford University Press, 2016), in which she traces the...
Baghdad's Deep Dilemma: Sectarianism and Urban Segregation under Occupation
February 3, 2016
AbstractThe sectarian-based segregation that has shaped urbanism in Baghdad is a direct outcome of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.