SIMA Insights

Breaking The Bottlenecks of Syria’s Reconstruction (Part 1)

Fourteen constriants standing between Syria's recovery and its delivery.

Aug 10 • Hani Al Jundi and Nicholas Lyall

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July 2026

Deir ez-Zor: The Extraction Thesis

This is the seventh and final issue in SIMA Insights’ city-level analysis of Syria’s reconstruction economy.

Jul 14 • Hani Al Jundi

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June 2026

Latakia: The Coastal Thesis

Syria's reintegration into the Mediterranean economy runs through one coast, and it recovers only as an open commercial order, not a captured one.

Jun 3 • Hani Al Jundi

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May 2026

Idlib: Decentralized Governance

The governorate that Assad punished hardest became the governorate that ended him. What it built in the interval is the governance story of Syria’s…

May 14 • Hani Al Jundi

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April 2026

Hama: Syria's Sustainability & Self-Sufficiency Capital

The only Syrian governorate with no foreign border is, counterintuitively, the one best positioned to build Syria's first self-sufficient circular…

Apr 28 • Hani Al Jundi

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Syria's Banking Problem and How to Solve It

Primer for anyone who wants to understand why Syria's reconstruction could stall at the point of capital, not because capital is absent, but because the…

Apr 24 • Hani Al Jundi

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The Node Connecting Syria: Homs

The node at the centre of Syria’s reconstruction corridors was the first city destroyed and the last to see capital return.

Apr 12 • Hani Al Jundi

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Damascus: The Capital Reconstructs

There is a useful way to think about Damascus, and it is different from the way you should think about Aleppo, which was the subject of the first…

Apr 2 • Hani Al Jundi

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March 2026

The Reconstruction Dividend: Aleppo

This is the first in a series examining the reconstruction potential of Syria’s cities, one at a time, through the same analytical lens.

Mar 22 • Hani Al Jundi

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Rebuilding from the Inside

A Conversation with Dr. Salaheddin Safadi, Syria’s Ministry of Health brought in a strategist with a mandate: reconstruct a broken sector and land it…

Mar 18 • Hani Al Jundi

Syria’s Health System, On Paper and Off

Syria’s Ministry of Health just published a strategy that names its own failures, scores its own facilities against poverty data, and frames household…

Mar 12 • Hani Al Jundi

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An Investor's Guide to Syria's New Investment Framework

Licensing, incentives, obligations, and how Syria compares to its neighbors, a practical guide to Decision No. 1.

Mar 10 • Hani Al Jundi

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