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Joshua M. Landisis Associate Professor in the School of International and Area

Studies at the University of Oklahomaand Director of the Center of Middle Eastern

Studies.Healso servesas a Faculty in Residence Professorfor the Walker Center

residence hall at the University of Oklahoma.[1]

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1 Background

2 Career

3 Criticism

4References

5 External links

Background

He earned his BA from Swarthmore College, MA from Harvard University, and PhD

from Princeton University. He's fluent in Arabicand Frenchand has studied Turkish,

Italianand Ottoman. He was brought upin Saudi Arabia and Lebanonand has lived in

various countries of the Middle East, such as Syria, Egypt, and Turkey. In all, he has

lived for 14 years in the Middle East. He has received three Fulbright grants and a

Social Science Research Council award.

Career

This section requires expansion.

(January 2007)

Landis is the webmaster of SyriaComment, which is a blog about Syrian politics,

history, and religion. It has been published since May 2004. Dr. Landis regularly travels

to Washington DC to consult with government agencies. In 2008, he received the

Outstanding Teaching Award at his university.

He is a frequent analyst on TV and radio. Most recently he has appeared on PBS News

Hour, Charlie Rose Show,[2]CNN, Fox News, and has been widely quoted in the New

York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, LA Times, and comments

frequently for NPRand BBC radio. He has spoken at the Brookings Institute, USIP,

Middle East Institute, and Council on Foreign Relations.[citation needed]

Landis' recent news appearances can be found here:

http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/?page_id=9821

He taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Wake Forest University, and Princeton

University before moving to the University of Oklahoma

CriticismLandis has been noted for his friendly relationship to the Ambassador of Syria, Imad

Moustapha, but when Landis wrote during the first weeks of the Syrian uprising of 2011

that there was "no soft landing" [3]for the Syria regime and that it was "deeply

sectarian",[4]Ambassador Moustapha cut off further contact with him on the grounds

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that he was a "revolutionary."

References

1. ^"Professors blog keeps OU in the news, world informed on Mideast nation" .

OUDaily.com. 2008-11-06. Retrieved 2011-03-25.

2. ^Charlie Rose Show: "Crisis in Syria," with Thomas L. Friedman, Fouad Ajami, Joshua

Landis and Anne-Marie Slaughter, February 6, 2012:

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/12139

3. ^"Is There a Soft Landing for Syria?" Time Magazine, Mar. 25, 2011:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2061364,00.html

4. ^The Syrian Regime: Deeply Sectarian, The Economist online, June 14th 2011:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/06/joshua-landis-syrian-regime

External links

Joshua M Landis at the University of Oklahoma

Syria Comment

Articles written by Joshua Landis:

"The Syrian Uprising of 2011: Why the Asad Regime is Likely to Survive to2013, " (February 2012) in Middle East Policy Vol. XIX, No. 1 (2012).

"Shishakli and the Druzes: Integration and Intransigence, " in The Syrian Land:

Processes of Integration and Fragmentation. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998:

369-396

Syria and the 1948 War in Palestine A shorter version of this article was

published as Syria in the 1948 Palestine War: Fighting King Abdullahs Greater

Syria Plan, in Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., Rewriting the Palestine War:

1948 and the History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press, 2001, pp. 178205. (Translated into French, Spanish and Arabic)

"Early U.S. Policy toward Palestinian Refugees: the Syria Option ," in ThePalestinian Regugees: Old Problems - New Solutions, eds. Joseph Ginat and

Edward J. Perkins, University of Oklahoma Press: Norman OK, 2001, pp. 7787.

Islamic Education In Syria: Undoing Secularism in Eleanor Doumato and Gregory

Starrett, Eds., Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East, London

& Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, pp. 177196.

"The Syrian Opposition , The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, pp. 4568. 2007.

(written with Joe Pace)

"The Syrian Opposition: The struggle for unity and relevance, 20032008 ," in Fred

Lawson, ed., Demystifying Syria,Saqi Books, 2009, pp. 120143. (written with Joe

Pace)"Will failure to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict mean a new Cold War in the Middle

East ?" Foreign Policy - Middle East Channel, Tuesday, May 11, 2010

"The U.S.-Syria Relationship: A Few Questions, " Middle East Policy, Vol. XVII,

No. 3, Fall 2010, pp. 6473.

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