Event

Syria: What Now?

Please join us Thursday, February 28 at 7 pm for a lecture by scholar and Wilson Fellow, Joshua Stacher, entitled "Syria: What Now?"

Tickets are $10.00 (ticket fee not included); the lecture takes place at the Mercy Corps Action Center, 28 SW 1st Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97204. For more information, please call our center during regular hours at 503-896-5747, or visit our website at www.mercycorps.org/portland.

Joshua Stacher is is currently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kent State University. Stacher's scholarship focuses on authoritarian durability and social movements in the Middle East and North Africa.

Stacher is the author of "Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt & Syria" (Stanford UP, 2012) as well as other peer-reviewed journal articles. He is a regular contributor to and on the editorial board of MERIP's inuential Middle East Report. Stacher has made media appearances and written commentary for NPR, CNN, BBC,Al-Jazeera, Foreign Affairs, Jadaliyya, and The New York Times, among others. He is also a founding member of the Northeast Ohio Consortium on Middle East Studies.