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Navvar Saban

Navvar Şaban is a conflict analyst and expert at Omran Center for Strategic Studies and a non-resident researcher at ORSAM. He is a MBA holder from the Australian University of Wollongong in Dubai. He holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from the American University in Dubai, and a diploma in Military Studies from İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi in Istanbul. His field of interest is Syria, specializing in Iranian influence in Syria, focusing on their militia activity in the military, economy, and at the administration level.

OPINION

How Iran used and is still using soft power in Syria

by Navvar Saban
17 November 2021

Syria has experienced many foreign interventions in recent years. The extent of intervention varies from country to country, depending on the international and political interests involved in the intervention. At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, some countries’ interventions were limited to the military and security spheres, while other countries’ interventions went beyond the military and security spheres and extended to the cultural, economic, and political spheres, and even intervened

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Recent developments in Daraa Governorate: causes, consequences, and expected scenarios

Daraa Governorate in southern Syria has a special status compared to the rest of the Assad regime’s control areas. Regional and external factors usually directly affect the security situation in the governorate, which the regime regained control over through the reconciliation agreement in the summer of 2018, which was preceded by a de-escalation agreement between the United States, Russia, and Jordan in July 2017. The reasons for the recent developments,

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by Navvar Saban
5 August 2021
OPINION

Assad’s quest for legitimacy and his efforts to normalize in the Gulf

In the elections, al-Assad tried to send a clear message

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by Navvar Saban
27 June 2021
OPINION

How Iran used and is still using soft power in Syria

by Navvar Saban
17 November 2021

Syria has experienced many foreign interventions in recent years. The extent of intervention varies from country to country, depending on the international and political interests involved in the intervention. At the beginning

More
OPINION

Recent developments in Daraa Governorate: causes, consequences, and expected scenarios

by Navvar Saban
5 August 2021

Daraa Governorate in southern Syria has a special status compared to the rest of the Assad regime’s control areas. Regional and external factors usually directly affect the security situation in the governorate,

More
OPINION

Assad’s quest for legitimacy and his efforts to normalize in the Gulf

by Navvar Saban
27 June 2021

In the elections, al-Assad tried to send a clear message to both the Syrian opposition and his foreign opponents that their dreams of overthrowing him were over, and many of al-Assad’s supporters

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