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dc.contributor.authorImady, Omar
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-14T10:04:09Z
dc.date.available2015-08-14T10:04:09Z
dc.date.issued2014-02-05
dc.identifier.citationImady, O. (2014). How a microfinance network could have preempted the Syrian uprising. Syria Studies, 6(1), pp. 81-122.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2056-3175en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/syria/article/view/823en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7222
dc.descriptionIssue title: tribes & neighborhoods: the dynamics of subtletyen_US
dc.description.abstractThe story shared below sheds light on a hitherto unknown prelude to the Syrian Uprising of March 2011. It is a story of a microfinance network of sanadiq, or village funds, that was first established in an area known as Jabal al-Hoss, southeast of Aleppo, and was eventually disseminated throughout rural Syria. The story begins in 1996, when Syria hosted its first conference on poverty, and it ends in 2009, after the Syrian government shut down the sanadiq established at Jabal al- Hoss. For a brief period of time, over 7,000 inhabitants of Jabal al-Hoss were directly involved in an institutional setup, which empowered them politically and financially, and which constituted a model that was emulated not only in other parts of Syria, but in Lebanon and Jordan as well. In attacking and eventually dismantling this network, the Syrian government inadvertently lost an important opportunity to deflate the sense of political and economic marginalization of Syria’s rural inhabitants, which eventually found expression in the Arab spring.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Syrian Studies, School of International Relations, University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSyria Studiesen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.lccDS92.S9en_US
dc.subject.lcshSyriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshSyria--History--21st centuryen_US
dc.subject.lcshSyria--Politics and governmenten_US
dc.titleHow a microfinance network could have preempted the Syrian uprisingen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen_US
dc.publicationstatusPublisheden_US
dc.statusPeer revieweden_US


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