Fares Shehabi Library
28-06-2022
This chart provides an overview of Damascus' performance within the Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
02-06-2022
The list below includes the names of all the individuals that have been blacklisted by the European Union since the beginning of the Syrian uprising in March 2011.
15-02-2022
A selection of reports, papers, and articles on Syria.
08-02-2022
Syria has four large industrial cities located near Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, and Deir-ez-Zor. The government built them to attract large-scale industrial projects, increase exports of high-value-added industrial products and create employment opportunities.
05-02-2022
The tables below provide a list of 236 companies currently operating in the Hessia Industrial City, one of four industrial cities in Syria. The companies are listed according to their sector of activity.
11-01-2022
This report provides an overview of Syria’s railway sector from the early 2000s until today. It sheds light on the sector prior to the Syrian uprising; the many projects that coincided with President Bashar Al-Assad’s ambition of transforming the country into the region’s transport hub; the damages to the sector caused by the decade-long conflict; and the challenges to the sector’s reconstruction.
21-12-2021
Since the start of the conflict, the average wealth and the median wealth of Syrian adult citizens have decreased by some 80 percent each, according to a recent report on global wealth. Compared with figures from 2000, wealth and median wealth per adult in 2020 decreased by 48 percent and 57 percent, respectively, while debt surged by 76 percent.
21-12-2021
The following text, lists and tables represent the legal basis for Canada's sanctions regime related to the Syrian conflict and that came into force on May 24, 2011 and updated as of November 29, 2021.
14-12-2021
This report will shed light on the economic relations between Syria and the UAE prior to 2011 and will trace the evolution of the bilateral relationship during the first half of the Syrian conflict. It will also focus on the path towards normalisation that has taken place in recent years, providing an overview of the business and economic ties since 2018 and covering the political and diplomatic developments that have taken place in the past six months.
16-11-2021
Wheat and barley are staples of Syria’s agricultural sector and represent the country's most strategic crops, comprising 95 percent of the total agricultural output prior to the Syrian conflict. As such, wheat and barley are highly subsidised as the government traditionally buys them from local farmers at a rate higher than world prices.
14-12-2020
The document below lists the members of the executive councils of the capital cities of 11 of Syria’s governorates.
14-12-2020
The document below lists all the members of the executive councils of Syria’s 14 governorates.
29-07-2020
The list of the 250 members of parliament following the elections organised on July 19, 2020.
08-07-2020
The table below lists the 81 Idlib companies offering money transfer services, as listed by the Syrian Salavation Government-affiliated regulatory authority
25-03-2020
A selection of reports, papers and articles on Syria.
04-12-2019
The list of the 18 members of the advisory council of the government as of December 02, 2019.
06-11-2019
The three lists below show the names of the members of the Constitutional Committee as provided by the team of the Office of the Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen.
16-10-2019
This table lists the maritime shipping agencies registered with the Ministry of Transport as of September 2019.
22-05-2019
A selection of reports, papers and articles on Syria.
04-12-2018
A selection of reports, papers and articles on Syria.
