Listen "S5 Ep18: Director’s cut: What Syrian refugees need to return home"
Episode Synopsis
This episode of the Director’s Cut features a conversation between Bruegel’s director, Guntram Wolff and Maha Yahya, the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, where her research focuses on citizenship, pluralism, and social justice in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings.
Yahya is the author of numerous publications, including most recently “Unheard Voices: What Syrian Refugees Need to Return Home” (April 2018); “The Summer of Our Discontent: Sects and Citizens in Lebanon and Iraq” (June 2017); and “Refugees and the Making of an Arab Regional Disorder” (November 2015).
For further reading, we recommend our blueprint "People on the move: migration and mobility in the European Union", written by Uuriintuya Batsaikhan, Zsolt Darvas and Inês Goncalves Raposo.
Zolt Darvas also contributed to the debate on migration and refugees in Europe with two blogs on similar topics: Beyond border control, migrant integration policies must be revived and The challenge of fostering financial inclusion of refugees.
Yahya is the author of numerous publications, including most recently “Unheard Voices: What Syrian Refugees Need to Return Home” (April 2018); “The Summer of Our Discontent: Sects and Citizens in Lebanon and Iraq” (June 2017); and “Refugees and the Making of an Arab Regional Disorder” (November 2015).
For further reading, we recommend our blueprint "People on the move: migration and mobility in the European Union", written by Uuriintuya Batsaikhan, Zsolt Darvas and Inês Goncalves Raposo.
Zolt Darvas also contributed to the debate on migration and refugees in Europe with two blogs on similar topics: Beyond border control, migrant integration policies must be revived and The challenge of fostering financial inclusion of refugees.
More episodes of the podcast The Sound of Economics
Understanding money in the EU
12/11/2025
Paradoxical EU-China climate relations
29/10/2025
What are governments buying?
22/10/2025
Climate, data and complacency
15/10/2025
What should Europe pay for
01/10/2025
China’s race to electrification
25/09/2025
EU foreign direct investment, explained
17/09/2025
ZARZA We are Zarza, the prestigious firm behind major projects in information technology.