🇱🇧 In his latest piece for XCEPT Research, Mohamad El Kari explores how the vast displacement of the Lebanese population - caused by Israel's military assault - has reopened old wounds which may be difficult to heal 👇 icsr.info/2024/12/19/isr…

What happens after #Assad’s fall? In this ep, Shiraz Maher, Craig Larkin and Siba Madwar صِبا ياسر مدور—a journalist from Aleppo—discuss Syria’s future and global security. Explore challenges with #Syrian insights: ☁️bit.ly/49Pt0Dd 🎧bit.ly/41Fzfrc 🍏bit.ly/4gnLZXZ

🇱🇧 📝 Craig Larkin, Research Lead on Memory & Conflict for XCEPT Research, explores how Lebanon's thawra protest movement uses civil war memories, sites, and narratives to challenge the political status quo 👇 brill.com/display/book/9…

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE Inna Rudolf, Craig Larkin, and Renad Mansour (Chatham House) explore the dynamics of Iraq's Islamic resistance scene in this War Studies podcast ep for XCEPT Research 👇 ☁️ bit.ly/4ho6Gmj 🟢 spoti.fi/4iYE8Bd 🍎 apple.co/4ilVHLq

In the latest Babel podcast episode by CSIS Middle East, Craig Larkin chats with Jon Alterman on rebuilding and healing after conflict in the Middle East. Tune in to find out what Dr. Larkin believes the int. community gets wrong about post-conflict recovery. buff.ly/a7jbIR3

"Thirty-five years after the national amnesty, the legacy of past wars has yet to be acknowledged in Lebanon: the past has been silenced and historical injustices remain unaddressed, creating a sense of temporal dislocation that leaves people trapped between past and present.

More Than Bargaining Chips: How Jabhat Al-Nusra and Islamic State Kidnapped and Used Hostages in Lebanon - Rajan Basra (Rajan Basra) and Craig Larkin (Craig Larkin), Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this paper Dr Rajan Basra and Dr Craig Larkin (Craig Larkin) present an empirical examination of the Arsal hostage crisis in Lebanon, when Jabhat Al-Nusra and Islamic State kidnapped over 35 soldiers and police officers in 2014. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/eVge50Y5oBu

Pleased to share my latest piece published today in MERIP: " The Struggle for the City—Urban Recovery and Dispossession in Mosul and Damascus" merip.org/2026/02/the-st… XCEPT Research War Studies King's Social Science & Public Policy

📝 NEW | “Jihad, Sects & the City” Drawing on hours of interviews with former IS fighters from Tripoli, Dr Craig Larkin (Craig Larkin) explores trauma, grievance, prison, and disillusionment in this XCEPT Research commentary. csns.uk/2026/02/23/jih…