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Dr Rahaf Aldoughli

Lecturer in Middle East and North African Studies

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    UN Mediators in Syria. The Challenges and Responsibilities of Conflict Resolution. By Fadi Nicholas Nassar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 324p

    Aldoughli, R., 30/06/2025, In: Perspectives on Politics. 23, 2, p. 780-781 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  3. E-pub ahead of print

    From Subjects to Agents: Spatialising Security and Reverse Securitisation in Sweida's Uprisings

    Aldoughli, R., 9/06/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs. 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Forthcoming

    Fighting Beyond Borders: Unravelling the Complex Drivers of Syrian Fighters in Foreign Conflicts

    Aldoughli, R., 3/06/2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Critical Military Studies.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    “Loyalism” as Masculinist Identity Politics: Navigating the Use of Symbolic Discourse in the Syrian War

    Aldoughli, R., 30/04/2025, In: Contemporary Levant. 10, 1, p. 76-93 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Syria's New Men: Masculinities and the Post-Asad Political Order

    Aldoughli, R., 16/04/2025, In: Middle East Research and Information Project. 314

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineContribution to Magazine with ISSN

  7. Published

    From Fallen Statues to Masked Men

    Aldoughli, R., 14/04/2025, In: Aljumhuriya.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineContribution to Magazine with ISSN

  8. Forthcoming

    From Subjects to Agents: Spatializing Security and Reverse Securitization in Sweida's Uprisings

    Aldoughli, R., 7/04/2025, (Accepted/In press) In: The International Spectator: Italian Journal of International Affairs.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    Shifting loyalties: understanding fighter motivations in Syria’s transitional phase

    Aldoughli, R., 17/03/2025, King's College London. 8 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  10. Published

    Syria needs Security-can al-Sharaa build a united army to provide it?

    Aldoughli, R., 10/03/2025, London: Chatham House.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  11. Published

    Syria's New Rulers Are Working to Unify Military Power

    Aldoughli, R., 25/02/2025, New Lines Magazine.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  12. Published

    The Right Way to Engage with Syria's New Rulers

    Aldoughli, R., Hamid, N., Mallock, N. & Mcdonald, B., 31/01/2025

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  13. Published

    Syria: challenges facing Ahmad al-Shara as he strives for legitimacy both inside and outside war-torn country

    Aldoughli, R., 7/01/2025

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  14. 2024
  15. Published

    Fighting Together: Emotionality, Fusion, and Psychological Kinship in the Syrian Civil War

    Aldoughli, R., 31/12/2024, In: Small Wars & Insurgencies. 35, 7, p. 1179-1211 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Forthcoming

    Romanticizing Masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, Identity and Ideology

    Aldoughli, R., 30/11/2024, (Accepted/In press) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 224 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  17. Forthcoming

    Framing a War or Framing Failure? How the 'Civil War' Narrative Shaped UN Mediation in Syria

    Aldoughli, R., 21/11/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Perspectives on Politics.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  18. Published

    ‘The End of the ‘Revolution’ (al-thawra) but not Revolutionaries (thuwwār)’: Insights from Syrian Fighters

    Aldoughli, R., 31/10/2024, In: Conflict, Security and Development. 24, 5, p. 397-424 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Ambivalent Loyalty and Dissonance: Alawite Community Dynamics Amidst the Syrian War

    Aldoughli, R. & Dukhan, H., 20/09/2024, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. 44 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  20. Forthcoming

    Authoritarianism and the Emergence of Parallel State Dynamics: Evidence from the Syrian Earthquake

    Aldoughli, R., 27/08/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: DOMES.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published
  22. Forthcoming

    Harnessing Natural Disasters Non-Profit Organisations and the Response to the 2023 Earthquake in Syria

    Aldoughli, R., 29/03/2024, (Accepted/In press) Syria: From Intense Military Engagement to Low-Intensity Conflict. London: Bloomsbury

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  23. Published
  24. Forthcoming

    Harnessing Crisis: The Role of SARC and STD in the Syrian Regime's Response to the 2023 Earthquake

    Aldoughli, R., 2024, (Accepted/In press) From Intense Military Engagement to Low-Intensity Conflict in Syria Actors, Dynamics and Processes. IB Tauris

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  25. 2023
  26. Published
  27. Published

    Dynamics of Exclusion and Violence in Education and Their Effect on Peacebuilding in Syria

    Aldoughli, R., 10/09/2023, EuroMed Feminist Initiative.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  28. Published
  29. E-pub ahead of print

    Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the Debate on “Sectarianism” in the Middle East

    Aldoughli, R., 7/08/2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Middle East Critique. 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. E-pub ahead of print

    Syria 2011-2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem

    Aldoughli, R., 10/07/2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article reviewpeer-review

  31. 2022
  32. Forthcoming

    Missing Gender: Conceptual Limitations in the debate of Sectarianism in the Middle East

    Aldoughli, R. B., 26/10/2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Middle East Critique.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Forthcoming

    The Syrian War as a Site for Masculinist Political Revival-Political songs since 2011-2021

    Aldoughli, R. B., 22/09/2022, (Accepted/In press) Spoils of War and Gendered Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa: Remodelling Society after 2011. Bloomsbury

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  34. Published

    Assad Remakes Syrian Faith to Suit the Regime’s Needs

    Aldoughli, R. B., 27/06/2022, New Lines Magazine.

    Research output: Other contribution

  35. Published

    Bringing loyalist and opposition factions together: The prospects for reconciliation in new Syria

    Aldoughli, R. B., 27/04/2022, Middle East Institute.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  36. Published

    Departing ‘Secularism’: boundary appropriation and extension of the Syrian state in the religious domain

    Aldoughli, R. B., 31/03/2022, In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 49, 2, p. 360-385 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    What is Syrian nationalism? Primordialism and romanticism in official Baath discourse

    Aldoughli, R. B., 30/01/2022, In: Nations and Nationalism. 28, 1, p. 125-140 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. 2021
  39. Forthcoming

    Romancing the Nation: Politics of Love and Blood in Syrian Popular Culture

    Aldoughli, R. B., 14/12/2021, (Accepted/In press) In: The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    قتل المفتي رمزيا في دمشق و تماهي الأسد مع السلطة الدينية

    Aldoughli, R. B. (Artist), 10/11/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  41. Published

    Empower Syrians not Warlords: Against the rebranding of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

    Aldoughli, R. B. & Al-Kassir, A., 15/07/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  42. Published

    Sectarianization and Ontological Security in the Syrian Conflict

    Aldoughli, R. B., 19/06/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  43. Published

    Collectivizing Trauma and Narrative in the Syrian War: Sectarianization and Ontological Security

    Aldoughli, R. B., 4/06/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  44. Published

    Securitization as a Tool of Survival: The Deployment of Religious Rhetoric in Bashar al-Asad’s Speeches

    Aldoughli, R. B., 6/05/2021, In: The Middle East Journal . 75, 1, p. 9-32 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Sectarianizing Faith: Safeguarding Authoritarianism in Syria

    Aldoughli, R., 29/03/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  46. Published

    Securitization as a tool of regime survival: The deployment of religious rhetoric in Bashar al-Asad's speeches

    Aldoughli, R., 1/03/2021, In: The Middle East Journal . 75, 1, p. 9-32 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. 2020
  48. Published

    Five decades of Baathism survived because of nationalism

    Aldoughli, R. B., 23/12/2020

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  49. Published

    A thinly veiled strategy: Assad's co-optation of women religious leaders

    Aldoughli, R. B., 3/12/2020

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlogpeer-review

  50. Published

    Syria, masculinity and how the Assad regime’s priorities have changed during pandemic

    Aldoughli, R. B., 24/11/2020

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsWeb publication/site

  51. Published

    Authoritarian apprehensions: ideology, judgement, and mourning in Syria

    Aldoughli, R. B., 19/10/2020, In: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 47, 5, p. 875-877 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  52. Published

    What does ''peace'' even mean for the peoples of the Middle East?

    Ajjoub, O. & Aldoughli, R. B., 7/10/2020

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  53. 2019
  54. Published

    The symbolic construction of national identity and belonging in Syrian nationalist songs (from 1970 to 2007)

    Aldoughli, R., 1/10/2019, In: Contemporary Levant. 4, 2, p. 141-154 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  55. Published

    Interrogating the Constructions of Masculinist Protection and Militarism in the Syrian Constitution of 1973

    Aldoughli, R., 1/03/2019, In: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 15, 1, p. 48-74 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  56. 2018
  57. Published

    The Securitisation of the 'Masculinist' other in the Syrian Conflict

    Aldoughli, R. B., 12/11/2018, Foreign Policy Centre.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  58. Published

    Belonging to a Militarized Syria as a Woman

    Aldoughli, R., 2018, SyriaUntold.

    Research output: Other contribution

  59. 2017
  60. Published

    Interrogating the Construction of Gendered Identity in the Syrian Nationalist Narrative: Al-Husari, Aflaq and al-Arsuzi

    Aldoughli, R., 21/04/2017, In: Syria Studies. 9, 1, p. 64-120 57 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  61. Unpublished

    Constructing the nation: gender bias and masculinity in Syrian nationalism

    Aldoughli, R., 2017, (Unpublished) Lancaster University. 302 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  62. Published

    Syrian nationalism is all about masculinity

    Aldoughli, R., 2017, The Conversation.

    Research output: Other contribution

  63. 2016
  64. Published

    Revisiting the Ideological Borrowings in the Syrian Nationalist Narratives: Sati ‘al-Husri, Michel ‘Aflaq and Zaki al-‘Arsuzi

    Aldoughli, R., 2/02/2016, In: Syria Studies. 8, 1, p. 7-38 33 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  65. Published
  66. 2014
  67. Published

    The De-Construction of Masculinism in the Two Contemporary Nationalist Schools of Thought: Primordialism and Modernism

    Aldoughli, R., 2014, In: The Luminary. 5

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  68. Published

    The Relationship between the Germanic and French Nationalist Thinking and their Contribution to the Shaping of Arab Nationalist Thought

    Aldoughli, R., 2014.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

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