Istanbul
Capture Istanbul as the chapter of CARE at scale — managing communications for healthcare serving Syrian refugees. This is where the humanitarian work became institutional, and where I learned that communications carries weight when lives depend on it.
International Patient Aid Society
Turkey Branch (جمعية إعانة المرضى الدولية فرع تركيا)
Served as PR Manager, overseeing communications for five medical centers dedicated to treating Syrian refugees across Turkey. This was communications at its most critical—bridging the gap between the most vulnerable populations, the medical staff treating them, and the international donors funding the operations.
The Weight of Words
Writing fundraising appeals and patient stories for surgeries where the stakes were explicitly life or death. Learning to frame tragedy with dignity, to advocate for resources without reducing human beings to mere statistics of war.
Key Responsibility
Healthcare Communications
Managing the narrative of survival and medical intervention for five distinct clinics, balancing transparency with profound respect for patient trauma.
The Pen That Followed Me Here
Syrian Revolution Network · Human Voice · Radio Rozana · 2013–2015
The freelance reporting that began in Dubai continued from Istanbul. Filing dispatches for Syrian Revolution Network (شبكة الثورة السورية), Human Voice newspaper, and Radio Rozana — covering Syria, frontline communities, and the geography of refuge from a city that had quietly become the operational heart of the Syrian exile.