Washington, D.C.
Where the intellectual home was built, and the public voice emerged. After the chaos of Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, and Gaziantep, a desk in Foggy Bottom brought clarity.
Professional Endeavors
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
People Demand Change · Oct 2015 – May 2016
Built M&E frameworks for governance and communications programs, turning qualitative and quantitative data into actionable recommendations for donors and implementers.
Research Analyst
Insight Advisory Group · May 2016 – Feb 2018
Produced policy briefings, analytical commentary, and strategic communications materials on Middle East and GCC affairs, including migration patterns and conflict dynamics. Organized Track-2 dialogues bringing together policymakers, researchers, and communications professionals from the US and the Gulf.
Head of Media Office
Council of Syrians Platform (منصة مجلس السوريين) · 2015 – 2017
Shaped and steered the public messaging of the Council of Syrians — crisis communications, narrative framing, and strategic engagement with regional and international actors at a pivotal moment in Syria's political trajectory.
Research Analyst — Middle East Affairs
Orient Research Center (مركز بحوث الشرق) · 2015 – 2018
Studied and analysed security affairs, civil society, political Islam, and the military transformations reshaping the Middle East. A three-year platform for the kind of deep, slow research that the daily news cycle never has time for.
Analyst & Writer — Middle East Affairs
Independent Contributor · Nov 2015 – Present
Write regularly for international think tanks and humanitarian outlets — Atlantic Council, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The Century Foundation, Jadaliyya — on Syria, displacement, siege economies, and armed-group dynamics. Coordinate, on a freelance basis, communications and content workflows for civil-society organizations across the Levant.
Diplomacy & Exchange
Selected for the prestigious IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program), the U.S. State Department's flagship exchange. Named Honorary Citizen of Pensacola, Florida. Student at BAU International.
Selected Writing from this Station
The Siege Economy of Eastern Ghouta
Cited by Air University, PAX, Century Foundation.
The MOC's Role in the Collapse of the Southern Opposition
Cited in a Cambridge University Press volume.
America's Coming Role in Syria
Prescient warning on the cost of wavering U.S. support.