By Fabrice Balanche|2025-11-22T11:35:20+01:0022 November 2025|Kurdistan, Media, Syria|
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Syria is moving toward an Islamic republic shaped by dominant Sunni conservative forces, warned a French expert on Wednesday, adding that the only way to prevent this from happening is the [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-06-13T19:52:30+02:0013 June 2025|Media, Middle-East|
Published in French, Le Figaro, 13 June, 2025 by Amaury Coutansais-Pervinquière INTERVIEW - "Israel will follow the same strategy in Iran what it did in Lebanon against Hezbollah by striking regime officials and its infrastructure," [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-06-02T14:34:42+02:001 June 2025|Media|
From Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2025, by Lucien Scherrer An attack by students on a researcher galvanized France, revealing the cowardice and extremist tendencies at universities. Clad in masks, with hoods and hats concealing [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-05-26T08:12:58+02:0025 May 2025|Media|
Open Letter by Senator Max Brisson, JDD, May 25, 2025 One hundred Senators have addressed the Minister of Higher Education, denouncing the ideology prevalent at universities. This is based on the case of Professor Fabrice [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-03-15T16:23:29+01:0015 March 2025|Communitarianism, Media, Syria|
The wave of sectarian violence that gripped Syria last week has marred the image of the country's new Islamist president, Ahmad al-Sharaa. Could the government have done more to prevent it? French academic Fabrice Balanche [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-11-13T23:15:54+01:0013 November 2024|Analysis, Media, Middle-East|
DeFacto, November 13, 2024 On the global stage, Donald Trump’s key objective remains ensuring the United States retains its status as the preeminent world power in the 21st century. At the core of this vision [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-05-25T22:13:39+02:0029 May 2024|Lebanon, Media, Syria|
Article published in L'Orient le Jour, 25 April 2024 by Jeanine Jalkh Fabrice Balanche, a lecturer at Lyon II University and expert on Syria, spoke to L’Orient-Le Jour about Syrian migrants in Lebanon, a topic explored in [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-04-02T23:08:01+02:002 April 2024|Events, Media, Syria|
Fabrice Balanche, author of “The lessons from the Syrian crisis” (Odile Jacob), was the guest of Vincent Roux in “Points de Vue” on Figaro Live, Monday April 1, 2024. Follow this twenty-minute video interview here [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-03-29T13:02:39+01:0029 March 2024|Events, Media, Syria|
I am very proud to be honored with the Conflits Award 2024 for my last book: Lessons from the Syrian crisis, published by Odile Jacob, in March 2024. Conflits is in line with the French [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-03-22T11:53:37+01:0022 March 2024|Media, Syria|
Original article from Le Figaro written by Charles Jaigu CHRONICLE – Geographer Fabrice Balanche offers a powerful analysis of the Syrian war. This excellent teacher of a confusing reality dismantles once and for all the faults [...]
