Omar Imady is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and the managing editor of Syria Studies, the Centre’s journal. Imady, who was born in Damascus, is the author, co-author and editor of several works on Syria, including The Rise and Fall of Muslim Civil Society; The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory; Syria at War: Five Years On; and Syria at War: Eight Years On. Imady is also a novelist and his novels have been translated into several languages.