Radwan Ziadeh

Ziadeh is a senior analyst at the Arab Center – Washington D.C

Also, he is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria (www.dchrs.org); and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C (www.scpss.org).

Since the Syrian uprising started on March 15, 2011, he was involved in documenting the ongoing human rights violations in Syria and testified at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva twice and in front of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S Congress.

He holds a D.D.S in Dentistry from Damascus University, Diploma in International Human Rights Law from College of Law at the American University in Washington D.C, and another Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies from University of Cyprus; MA (Master of Art) in Democracy and Governance from Georgetown University in Washington D.C.

He was a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at many prestigious universities like George Washington University; New York University, Georgetown University, Columbia University and Harvard University.

He named best political scientist researcher in the Arab world by Jordan’s Abdulhameed Shoman Foundation in 2004; In 2009 he was awarded the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Academic Freedom award in Boston; and in 2010 he accepted the Democracy Courage Tributes award on behalf of the human rights movement in Syria, given by the World Movement for Democracy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

He wrote more than twenty books in English and Arabic, his most recent book is Syria's Role in the Changing Middle East: The Syrian-Israeli Peace Talks (2016) from I.B.Tauris.

His op-ed appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic and New Yorker; and he is a frequent political commentator on several U.S., European, and Middle Eastern media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, and Al-Hurra.

He also writes a bi-monthly op-ed for the leading Arab daily, Al-Hayat, and New Arab.