Aron Lund is a fellow at the Century Foundation. He is a Swedish writer on Middle Eastern affairs and has written extensively on Syrian politics. His work was supported by a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Between 2013 and 2016, he edited the site Syria in Crisis for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was a nonresident associate in 2016. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at St. Andrew’s University.