Bassma Kodmani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bassma Kodmani
Occupation	Political Scientist
Date Of Birth	Apr 29, 1958(1958-04-29)
Age	66
Birthplace	Damascus
Country	Syria
Horoscope	Aries

Bassma Kodmani Biography

Bassma Kodmani is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on April 29, 1958 in Damascus, Syria. Bassma Kodmani was born Damascus, Syria in 1958. As a young girl, she was a student at her school “Ecole Franciscaine”, a French Christian school located in Damascus. Her father worked in the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as diplomat. Following the victory of the war of 1967 in 1967, he was involved in a dispute against the minister of foreign affairs, and was then imprisoned for 6 months. This forced him to move out of Syria and his entire family and relocate to Lebanon where they lived for 3 years , from 1968 until 1971. After 1971, they relocated to London in the United Kingdom, where Bassma Kodmani’s father was able to find work in the United Nations.

The year 2005 was the time that Bassma Kodmani founded in 2005 the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) which is a group of independent Arab institutions of research and public policy that has members from both the United States and Europe. This Arab Reform Initiative began to be created by four directors from Arab policy research institutes that have chosen to collaborate in cooperation with four European and one US think tank called the US/Middle East Project. Through research and policy recommendations The ARI has the declared goal of promoting democratic reform and decentralization across the Arab world. It hopes to start an exchange of ideas between institutions of policy in the Arab world to “advance the understanding of decision-makers and opinion leaders on issues of reform in the Arab world.” Furthermore it is the Arab Reform Initiative “aims to raise awareness in the Arab world about successful transitions to democracy in other parts of the world, and of the mechanisms and compromises which made such successful transitions possible.”

In 2005, Bassma Kodmani became the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative, a network of think-tanks and policy institutes devoted to the study of the Arab world.

Bassma Kodmani holds a doctorate degree of political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. She has authored multiple books, academic papers and articles in French and English on the issue of the democratization in the Arab world, the Palestinian diaspora, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the strategies of Arab states towards Islamist movements, political change in North Africa and regional security. Her last book to date is “Abattre les Murs” (Breaking the Walls) published in 2008.

From 1981 until 1998, she was the director and founder of from 1981 to 1998, she established and directed the Middle East Program at the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris as well as an Associate Professor in International Relations at Universite of Paris-1 Pantheon- Sorbonne and Universite Paris-Est Marne La-Vallee.

Bassma Kodmani Net Worth

Bassma Kodmani is one of the richest Political Scientist from Syria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bassma Kodmani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bassma Kodmani (Arabic: bsm@qDmny born 29 April 1958, in Damascus, Syria) is an academic from Syria. She is a Syrian academic, and former spokesperson for the Syrian National Council. she is Executive Director for the Arab Reform Initiative, a group that is independent Arab institutions of research and analysis that work to build a democratic Arab world.

Bassma Kodmani attended her school, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris where she received a Ph.D. qualification in the field of Political Science. Because of her feelings of being part of and belonging to the Arab the world at large, she resigned her dream of working in the French Foreign Service and chose to concentrate on studying international relations. She worked for the Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris where she created and headed the Middle East Program from 1981 until 1998. At that point, she realized that she wasn’t interested anymore in only researching in the Arab globe as an matter of study. She was determined be able to “contribute to its future.” She spent seven years in Egypt where she was the director of an initiative called the Governance and International Cooperation (GIC) program in and the Middle East and North Africa at the Ford Foundation.

From 2005 to 2006, she also was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Collège de France. From 2007 to 2009, she was a senior advisor on international cooperation to the French national research council and an associate researcher at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI- Sciences Po) from 2006 to 2007.

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She is also the recipient of the 2011 Raymond Georis Prize for Innovative Philanthropy established by the Mercator Fund “a prize honouring outstanding contributions to European philanthropy” for the role of her organization the Arab Reform initiative in promoting democracy in the context of the Arab Spring.

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Bassma Ranked on the list of most popular Political Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Syria. Bassma Kodmani celebrates birthday on April 29 of every year.

In February 2012, a controversy erupted over Bassma Kodmani’s participation in a French televised program featuring Israeli writers back in 2008. The video featured on YouTube shows selected excerpts of the program and accuses Bassma Kodmani of defending Israel for stating that “we need Israel in the region”, omitting the rest of the sentence that said “provided it fixes its borders and sets the terms of its relationships with its neighbours”. In response to these accusations, Bassma Kodmani published a response explaining that the video was fabricated in order to hurt her reputation as it took her answers out of context and cut everything that she said in defense of the rights of Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians. She described this video as nothing more than an attempt of the government to destabilize the Syrian National Council.