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Maysaloon
Maysaloon is a renowned Syrian Arab blogger and commentator. He writes at www.maysaloon.org.
Thanassis Cambanis
This is a cross-post of “The Internationalist” column written by journalist Thanassis Cambanis in The Boston Globe, also published to his website. Cambanis is a correspondent for The Atlantic, a fellow at The Century Foundation and the author of “A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah’s Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel.” .
John Wreford
John Wreford is a photographer based in Damascus. Roads and Kingdoms, an independent journal of food, politics, music and culture, can be found on Twitter @roadskingdoms.
Allan Goodman
Allan Goodman is the president and CEO of the Institute of International Education. .
Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro is a Syria Deeply columnist, London-based architect and Middle East commentator. He blogs at the wildly popular karlremarks.com and Tweets @KarlreMarks.
Dina Shahrokhi
Dina Shahrokhi is the research assistant at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Todd Fine
Todd Fine is the co-founder of the Save Washington Street campaign and founder of Project Khalid, an effort to commemorate the centennial of Ameen Rihani’s “The Book of Khalid.”.
Barak Barfi Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Barak Barfi is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, where he specializes in Arab and Islamic affairs. He recently returned from Aleppo. Barak writes often for publications including The International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, and is a regular guest on CNN, Fox News Channel, France 24 and other international networks. He is based between the U.S. and the Middle East.
Mike Niconchuk
Mike Niconchuk works for an international organization in Jordan and works frequently from Zaatari. He’s a graduate of Tufts University.
Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro is a Syria Deeply columnist, London-based architect and Middle East commentator. He blogs at the wildly popular karlremarks.com and Tweets @KarlreMarks.
Dina Shahrokhi
Dina Shahrokhi is Research Associate for the Middle East at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro is a Syria Deeply columnist, London-based architect and Middle East commentator. He blogs at the wildly popular karlremarks.com and Tweets @KarlreMarks.
Yassamin Ansari
Yassamin Ansari is a co-chair of Syria Deeply on Campus, a News Deeply initiative that works with college students to understand and engage the Syria crisis. SDOC’s first project, Caravan Aid, is raising funds to help the UNHCR provide heated trailers to residents of the Zaatari Refugee Camp.
Malik Al-Abdeh
Malik Al-Abdeh is a London-based Syrian journalist. Follow him on @malikalabdeh.
Stephen Armstrong
In this third of three editorials about News Deeply’s Teach Deeply initiative, Stephen Armstrong, the president-elect of the National Council for the Social Studies, gives his personal endorsement of Syria Deeply. The NCSS is a national organization devoted to supporting social studies education.
Barak Barfi Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Barak Barfi is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, where he specializes in Arab and Islamic affairs. He recently returned from Aleppo. Barak writes often for publications including The International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, and is a regular guest on CNN, Fox News Channel, France 24 and other international networks. He is based between the U.S. and the Middle East.
Anne Richard
Anne Richard is the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration at the U.S. State Department.
Jane Park
This is the second of three editorials about Teach Deeply, an education initiative from News Deeply that works to educate American students about the Syrian crisis. Jane Park works at Creative Commons, a Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit organization creating flexible copyrights that allow people to share creative work. You can find her on Twitter as @janedaily.
Phil Sands
This is the first cross-post between News Deeply and The National, the government-owned English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Phil Sands has been the paper’s Syria correspondent for four years. Here, he paints a picture of Damascus – a city on the edge.
Prof. Mark N. Katz
Mark N. Katz is a professor of government and politics at George Mason University, and one of the leading experts on Russian-Arab relations. He is the author of Leaving without Losing: The War on Terror after Iraq and Afghanistan, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Karl Sharro
Karl Sharro is a London-based architect and Middle East commentator. He blogs at the wildly popular karlremarks.com and Tweets @KarlreMarks.
Karen Leigh
Karen Leigh is the managing editor of News Deeply. She has lived and reported in India, West Africa and the Middle East for publications including TIME and The New York Times. You can find her on Twitter as @leighstream.
Samy Harmoush
Samy Harmoush is the National Project Manager for the Syrian American Council, coordinating and advising Syrian-American volunteers across the U.S. He’s a graduate of Columbia University. Follow him on Twitter @SamyHarmoush.
Carl F. Hobert
Today, News Deeply launches a new initiative called Teach Deeply. Kristin Nolan, our development and educational programs manager, explains the concept:
Barak Barfi Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Barak Barfi is a Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, where he specializes in Arab and Islamic affairs. He recently returned from Aleppo. Barak writes often for publications including The International Herald Tribune, The New Republic, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and The Atlantic, and is a regular guest on CNN, Fox News Channel, France 24 and other international networks. He is based between the U.S. and the Middle East.
Taufiq Rahim
Taufiq Rahim is a Dubai-based political analyst and strategist. He is the Director of Globesight, a strategic advisory firm for organizations working in the MENA region. He is regular contributor to print, TV, and online media and blogs on TheGeopolitico.com. You can follow Taufiq on Twitter @TheGeoPolitico.
Mark Katz
Professor Mark Katz, PhD, is a professor of Russian and Soviet politics at George Mason University and a leading voice on Russian-Arab relations. He’s a former Soviet analyst for the State Department, onetime Brookings fellow and the author of numerous books on Soviet policies in the Arab world.
Lara Setrakian Co-Founder and Executive Editor, News Deeply
Lara Setrakian is a foreign correspondent and the founder of Syria Deeply. She’s covered the Middle East and US foreign policy for the past five years, filing for ABC News, Bloomberg Television, the International Herald Tribune, and Monocle Magazine. She pioneered the use of social media in covering Iran’s election crisis in 2009 and lives on Twitter as @lara.
Yassamin Ansari
Yassamin Ansari is an International Relations major at Stanford University. She spent the fall of 2012 studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, where she also reported as an independent journalist from the Zaatari Refugee Camp. Yassamin is also the Co-Chair of Syria Deeply On Campus.
Lionel Beehner
Lionel Beehner is a fellow at the Truman National Security Project, and former senior writer at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is currently a PhD student at Yale, where he focuses on civil wars and non-state actors in the Middle East. Lioneel has reported from Syria several times for the New York Times as well. .
Thomas McGee
Thomas McGee is a scholar in Kurdish Studies focusing on the Kurds of Syria and their civil society initiatives. He was based in Syria for the first eight months of the Revolution and two years prior to its start. He speaks Kurdish and Arabic and has travelled widely in the Kurdish regions of Syria. Based on his experiences, he has also published as a freelance journalist for the Guardian and BBC. His work can be found at www.journalisted.com/thomas-mcgee.
Bradley Bosserman
Bradley Bosserman is a policy analyst at NDN and the New Policy Institute, where he directs the Middle East and North Africa Initiative. He lives on Twitter as: @BradEEB.
Syria Untold
With the help of Qordoba, Syria Deeply has translated this submission from Syria Untold*, a forthcoming Arabic language news website focused on peaceful and creative resistance in Syria. Its writers, based in Syria and abroad, collect, filter and curate stories about civil disobedience and the nonviolent aspect of the Syrian revolution.* .
Bessma Momani
Bessma Momani is a senior fellow at CIGI and Brookings Institution and an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. You can find her on Twitter as @b_momani.
Mohammed Sergie
Mohammed Aly Sergie is the Senior Editor at Syria Deeply. He previously reported on private equity deals for Dow Jones in New York and established a bureau for the news service in Saudi Arabia. He grew up in Aleppo, Syria.
Lara Setrakian Co-Founder and Executive Editor, News Deeply
Lara Setrakian is a foreign correspondent and the founder of Syria Deeply. She’s covered the Middle East and US foreign policy for the past five years, filing for ABC News, Bloomberg Television, the International Herald Tribune, and Monocle Magazine. She pioneered the use of social media in covering Iran’s election crisis in 2009 and lives on Twitter as @lara. .
Sarab Al-Jijakli
Sarab Al-Jijakli is a Syrian-American community organizer, activist and co-founder of the National Alliance for Syria. Follow his blog or on twitter @sarabny.
Patrick Hilsman
Patrick Hilsman currently works for Transterra media and is a contributor to Syria Deeply. Patrick graduated from Columbia University where he studied Political Science.He recently appeared on BBC from Aleppo as a Syria Deeply contributor. .
Ari Ratner
Ari Ratner is a former appointee in the Obama Administration, where he served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. You can follow him on twitter at @amratner.
Ben Gittleson
Ben Gittleson is a freelance journalist based in Cairo who has covered the region for a number of publications, including The Atlantic, The Daily Beast*, and ESPN.com. He has also reported on the Syrian refugee crisis for* The National and Al-Monitor*. Follow him on Twitter* @bgittleson.
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