Captagon After the Fall of Assad: Transformations, Challenges, and Regional Implications
Dr. Karam Shaar is a nonresident senior fellow at New Lines Institute, where he focuses on illicit narcotic flows and
Dr. Karam Shaar is a nonresident senior fellow at New Lines Institute, where he focuses on illicit narcotic flows and their nexus with security and political systems in the Middle East, particularly in Lebanon and Syria. In addition to his work at New Lines, he is the director of Karam Shaar Advisory Limited and the Chief Economic Consultant at the Resident Coordinator’s Office of the U.N. in Damascus.
He was previously a Senior Consultant at the World Bank, a Nonresident Scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Senior Analyst at the New Zealand Treasury, and a Senior Lecturer on Middle East Politics at Massey University. Originally from Aleppo, Syria, he has traveled extensively and currently splits his time between New Zealand and Syria.
Dr. Shaar’s work on Syria has been published by the Middle East Institute, Foreign Policy, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Guardian, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a frequent media contributor and has been interviewed, quoted, or hosted by The Washington Post, CNN, The Sunday Times, Al Jazeera, BBC, The New York Times, Chatham House, the United Nations, the University of Oxford, and others.
More of Dr. Shaar’s work is available at www.karamshaar.com. He tweets at @karam__shaar.
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