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Haian Dukhan is a PhD Candidate at the School of International Relations/Centre for Syrian Studies in St Andrews University. His research interests deal with tribal political systems and social and political exclusion of tribal people in Syria. He is also a disability rights activist who led different disability campaigns in Syria and the UK. Dukhan's fieldwork experience has been largely done in Palmyra, a world heritage city in Syria, where he originally comes from. During the past four years of Dukhan's work on his PhD, he published many papers that were cited in different media outlets like: Tribes and Tribalism in the Syrian Uprising - The Islamic State and the Arab Tribes in Eastern Syria. He also presented his research in different universities and research centres worldwide.