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  • Ammar A., Haj Asaad, A., & Szilvácsku, Z. M. (2026). Assessing the drivers of land use change: Drought, conflict, and governance in the Syrian Upper Orontes watershed (1991–2024). Watershed Ecology and the Environment, 8:273-288 Read more

  • Mhanna, S., Halloran, L. J. S., Tille, Y., Haj Asaad, A. H., Zwahlen, F., & Brunner, P. (2026). Rapid land surface uplift and groundwater recovery observed during the Syrian War. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, 1 – 16, e2025GL120021.Read more

  • Haj Asaad, A.; Feijoo Seara, E. and Hajasaad, I. 2026. Water weaponisation and hydro-coercive negotiation: Rethinking hydropolitics, power and interdependence in the Syrian conflict (2012-2020). Water Alternatives 19(2): 436-456 Read more

  • Haj Asaad, A., (2026), Water, Power, and Borders in the Tigris–Euphrates Basin: Turkish–Arab Relations from Stalemate to Supranational Governance, Louhichi, Soumaya & Barout, Jamal. Post-Ottoman Transitions: Rethinking Nation-State Trajectories in the Arab and Turkish Contexts, Baden-Baden: Ergon.Read more

  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), Hydropolitics and Peacebuilding in Syria’s Reconstruction: Towards a New Economic–Environmental Model of Regional Water Sharing, Syria One Year After Assad, Pompes, Read more

  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), Orontes River Basin water managemen test of sovereignty or an opportunity for regional integration, Read more

  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), The Right to Life or Market Logic? Syria’s Water Resources Between Regional Integration and Meeting Basic Needs, Syria tv.

  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), Forests: Drivers of Conflict or Opportunities for Integration? Advancing Fair and Sustainable Participatory Governance, Syria tv.
  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), Damascus Gate Project: Balancing Development Ambitions with Water Constraints — Is a Location Reassessment Necessary?, Syria tv,
  • Haj Asaad, A., (2025), From the Margins to the Center of Development? The Syrian Badia and the Pathways of Reconstruction, Syria tv, Read more
  • HAJ ASAAD, A. (2025), Syria’s Reconstruction: Rethinking Based on Water Distribution, Syria tv, Read more
  • HAJ ASAAD, A., (2025), Levée des sanctions américaines en Syrie : « Cette décision peut transformer le pays », La CROIX, Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., (2024), Arab Water Security: Balancing Institutional Management and Political Will – A Case Study of Syria, Hikama, Issue 9 - Volume 05 - Autumn 2024. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., Darmame, K. (2024). Governance of Water Scarcity in the Syrian Jazeera, from Mismanagement to Political Settlements: Case Study of Ras Al Ayn (1950–2020). In: Darmame, K., Ross, E. (eds) Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East. Local and Urban Governance. Springer Read more
  • Saeed Mhanna, Landon JS Halloran, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Philip Brunner, 2023,  Using machine learning and remote sensing to track land use/land cover changes due to armed conflict, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 898,Read more
  • Mahmoud, F. , Rerat, P. (2022) The Effects of the Syrian Conflict on mobility in North Aleppo (Afrin and Ayn al-Arab), in: The Journal of Institute of Egypt, a special issue of the Transport and Communications Conference and its Role in Arab Economic Development and Integration, the second virtual conference at the Arab Geographical School of Transport, Trade and Communications, special issue of  Egyptian Scientific Academy, Read mre 
  • Haj Asaad, A, (2022), Water Security Challenges in the Syrian Jazira (Ras Al ayn - Alluk Station), Governance of Water Scarcity from Mismanagement to Political Settlements,Al Sharq Strategic research centre, Istanbul, Turkey. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., (2022), Water diplomacy: food security in the Russo-Ukrainian war,  Al Sharq Strategic research, Istanbul, Turkey. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A. (2021). Water for Negotiation and Local Peacebuilding in Syria, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Geneva, Switzerland. 
  • Haj Asaad, A. (2021). Water in Syria: Opportunities and Challenges for Peace and Security, Al Sharq Strategic research, Istanbul, Turkey. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., Blanc, P. (2020). L’Iran et ses alliés en Syrie : les répertoires du religieux, du politique et du militaire, Confluences Méditerranée, 113(1), 193 - 207, Read more
  • Ebener S, Stenberg K, Brun M, et al., Proposing standardised geographical indicators of physical access to emergency obstetric and newborn care in low-income and middle-income countries BMJ Global Health 2019;4:e000778. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., Saadé-Sbeih, M. & Jaubert, R. (2019). La crise agraire du bassin de l’Oronte : de la planification centralisée aux projets agro-industriels. Confluences Méditerranée, 108(1), 87-103. Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., Saadé-Sbeih, M. & Jaubert, R. (2018), Logique Humanitaire et Résilience en situation de Conflit ; Le Cas des Périmètres Irrigués du Bassin de l’Oronte en Syrie, in Cosimo Lacirignola (dir.), Crises et conflits en Méditerranée : L’agriculture comme résilience, iReMMO n° 32, éd. L’Harmattan, pp. 133-148. Read more
  • Saadé-Sbeih, M.; Haj Asaad, A.; Shamali, O.; Zwahlen, F. and Jaubert, R. 2018. Groundwater balance politics: Aquifer overexploitation in the Orontes River Basin. Water Alternatives 11(3): 663-683. Read more
  • Soufiyane Amadou, Nicola Cantoreggi et Ronald Jaubert, 2018, « Les Nigériens nourrissent les Nigériens : quelles perspectives pour les exploitations familiales ? », Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer, 278. Read more
  • Steven Dixon, Elsa Romera Moreno, Amal Sadozi, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Localisation of Humanitarian Response in the Syrian Crisis, Confluences Méditerranée, 2016/(N°99). Read more
  • Haj Asaad, A., Jaubert, R. et Al Dbyat M., (Avril 2016), L’agriculture irriguée du bassin de l’Oronte en Syrie : enjeux de la réhabilitation post-conflit, Watch Letter N°36, CIHEAM, Read more
  • Myriam Saadé-Sbeih, François Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Raoul Gonzalez, and Ronald Jaubert, Post conflict water management: learning from the past for recovery planning in the Orontes River basin, in PIHS, October 2016. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Omar Shamaly, The Effects of the Conflict in the Orontes River Basin in Syria, in Water Resources Management in the Lower Asi-Orontes River Basin, IHEID & MEF, Istanbul, pp. 11 - 18, 2016. Read more
  • Ronald Jaubert,  Myriam Saadé-Sbeih, Addressing the complexity and uncertainty of water management in the Orontes river basin, in Water Resources Management in the Lower Asi-Orontes River Basin, IHEID & MEF, Istanbul, 2016. Read more
  • Waltina Scheumann and Omar Shamaly, The Turkish-Syrian Friendship Dam on the Orontes River: Benefits for All?, in Water Resources Management in the Lower Asi-Orontes River Basin, IHEID & MEF, Istanbul, pp. 125 - 134, 2016. Read more
  • Kanj Hamadé, Pierre Blan, Ronald Jaubert, Myriam Saadé – Sbeih, De part et d’autre de la frontière libano-syrienne : les mutations de l’agriculture du Haut Oronte, Confluences Méditerranée, 2015/(N°92). Read more
  • Ronald Jaubert, Myriam Saadé – Sbeih, Mohammed Al Dibyat, Ahmed HAJ ASAAD e-Atlas of the Orontes River Basin. Read more
  • F. Zwahlen, M. Bakalowicz, R. Gonzalez, A. HAJ ASAAD, M Saadée, R. Jaubert, Grounwater flows in the Orontes River Basin and groundwater in the Syria –Lebanon water sharing agreement, Diktas conference,  Trebinje, Karst without Boundaries, June 2014. Read more
  • ​Soutter M., Haj Asaad A., Shenk C., An e-Atlas to support integrated water resources management in the Orontes river basin, Tech4Dev International Conference 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 4-6, 2014 Read more
  • Ahmed HAJ ASAAD, Ronald JAUBERT, Geostrategic stakes and the impact of the conflict in the Orontes River basin, Confluence Méditerranéenne, Mai 2014. Read more
  • Steeve Ebener, Karin Stenberg, Nicolas Ray, Helder Santiago, Imed Ben Hamadi, Hayat Tib and Ahmed Haj Asaad, Analyzing accessibility and geographic coverage of Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) Services using AccessMod 4.0 (in press), International Journal of Health Geographics.
  • Saadé-Sbeih, M., Gonzalez R., HajAsaad A., Traboulsi M., Jaubert F. & Zwahlen F. (2014) Water balance in the Orontes basin (Lebanon – Syria): consequences of the intensive development of surface and ground water, Workshop – Sharing Experiences in Karst Water Resources in the Middle East, UNESCO/IUGS, 26 – 29 May 2014, Ankara, Turkey. Read more
  • Saadé, M., Jaubert, R., Al Dbiyat, M. & Haj Asaad, A. (2008) Utilisation de l’eau et centralisme étatique: le développement de l’irrigation dans les marges arides de Syrie, Maghreb-Machrek, 196.

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