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Haid Haid

Haid Haid is associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. A Syrian columnist and researcher, he focuses on security policies, conflict resolution, and Kurdish and Islamist movements. 

April 2018

  • Bombed-out buildings in Douma, Eastern Ghouta.

    The west’s strikes were not for Syrians, whose fate is now sealed

    Haid Haid
    Military action by the US, France and Britain at least offered an opportunity for political progress, but that was not taken, says Haid Haid, a consulting research fellow of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa programme

April 2017

  • Syrians parents weep over body after 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta

    We anti-Assad Syrians hail the US strike – but fear it could be an empty gesture

    Haid Haid
    The 2013 chemical weapons deal let Assad’s slaughter continue with barrel bombs and starvation tactics. This time Trump must target all regime war crimes

December 2016

  • Syrian government troops patrol the al-Shaar neighbourhood after taking control of the area in Aleppo, Syria.

    Aleppo’s fall won’t end the Syrian conflict – it will signal a more terrifying stage

    Haid Haid
    The Assad regime’s complicated international allegiances and relative weakness in many parts of the country means an end to the agony is nowhere in sight
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