Academic Publications

Sanctions as Barriers to the Work of Humanitarian Organizations in Syria in Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Humanitarian Consequences, Edited by Joy Gordon, 2025

Interplay between sanctions, donor conditionality, and food insecurity in complex emergencies: the case of Syria. Disasters Journal e12656, September 2024. 

Starve or Surrender: Sanctions as a Siege Warfare Strategy in the Syrian Conflict, Syria Studies Journal, Vol 15 No 1 (2023): Great Power Competition in the Syrian Conflict

Mohammad Kanfash and Ali Aljasem, Starvation as Strategy in the Syrian Armed Conflict: Siege, Deprivation, and Detention. Accountability for Mass Starvation Testing the Limits of the Law Edited by Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch, and Wayne Jordash QC, 2022. 

Policy briefs and working papers

Harm by Overcompliance to Unilateral Sanctions – The Paradigm of Syria, Beyond Compliance Symposium, Dec 2025

Alexandra Hofer and Mohammad Kanfash, Sanctions as violence, E-International Relations, June 2024

Het conflict in Syrië en internationale interventie, Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Dutch Non-lethal Assistance Programme / Commissie van onderzoek NLA-programma in Syrië, 2022.

Sanctions and Food Insecurity in Syria, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University, 2022.

Starvation in Syria: a political marketplace analysis. Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2021.

Mohammad Kanfash and Olivia Macharis, Treating Idlib as Protracted Crisis, Clingendael