Syria After Assad Governance, Economy,
and Civil Society in the Transition, Mid-2026
By Diana Khayyata | July 2026
A companion analysis building on that postscript, taking Syria's transition since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 as its full subject.
It examines the political settlement under transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the security picture across the coast, the south, and the north-east, the sanctions relief reshaping Syria's economic reopening, the unresolved housing and property rights crisis facing returnees, and the opening, and new constraints, facing Syrian civil society as it negotiates its place in the new order.
Diana Khayyata is the founder of Levantina Consulting and former Project Leader for Housing, Land and Property Syria at PAX for Peace. She has led multi-partner HLP programmes and donor compliance processes across Syria's most complex displacement contexts.
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