Interview with Maha Yahya, Director of Carnegie Middle East Center

Maha Yahya, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, sits down with Niku Jafarnia, an editor for the Harvard Journal for Middle Eastern Politics and Policy and a student at Harvard Law School, to discuss the conditions needed for the eventual safe return of Syrian refugees and the current dynamics of domestic rhetoric around refugees in host countries, involuntary returns, “safe zones,” and shifting territorial control within Syria.