FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Peter Harling

Peter founded Synaps to distill almost 20 years experience working in and on the Arab world. During this itinerary, which led him from Iraq to Lebanon, then Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and back to Lebanon, he combined academia with long-form journalism, consultancies, and a ten-year tenure with the International Crisis Group. A French citizen born in England, he studied biology before switching to political science and sociology, and lived happily ever after.

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Life and death of the knowledge industry

Managerial skills

Management Publishing Assuming leadership Developing a strategic vision

The digital path to real citizenship in Lebanon

Economics Lebanon Entrepreneurship

Syria trends

Ask Google

Syria Migration policy Building a research dataset Understanding cybersecurity

Daesh is not the point

Counter-intuiting the Middle East

Terrorism Arab world Reforms Governance Social problems

Obama's Iraq policy

That curious feeling of deja-vu

Iraq Terrorism Geopolitics

What the war on terror looks like

Iraq in the eye

Iraq Terrorism United States Geopolitics

The Mediterranean crush

Arab world Mobility Social problems Europe

The West’s war on itself

The hard truths of soft counterterrorism

Radicalization Terrorism Arab world United States Geopolitics Europe

The Syria aid regime that needed help

Touching the ground

Aid sector Reconstruction Civil society Syria

The Syrian Trauma

Reflecting on five years of agony

Syria Memory Mental health

What just happened?

When time devours its children

Global Arab world United States Europe Party politics

Nature's insurgency

Water wanted in the land of plenty

Water Agriculture Iraq Environment Pollution

While we stayed home...

Economics Health Global Geopolitics Mobility

Grand Theft Lebanon

Economics Banks Lebanon Debt