Arthur Quesnay is a doctor in political sciences and affiliated to Panthéon-Sorbonne University (Paris 1, CESSP). Based in Damascus, he is an expert on Syria and Iraq. His publications include The Iraqi Civil War: Partisan Factions and Identity Politics in Kirkuk (2003–2020) (Karthala, 2021) and Civil War in Syria : Mobilization and Competing Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2018) with Adam Baczko and Gilles Dorronsoro.