The following is the edited text of Jenan Moussa’s speech, with a new angle on Syria’s women, delivered at the 2013 Oslo Freedom Forum. Moussa is a correspondent for Al Aan, a pan-Arab satellite television channel based in Dubai. She makes frequent tri …

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The following post first appeared at the Brown Moses Blog.  The following videos were posted online today from the city of Raqqa, which has been under the control of Jihadist Syrian opposition groups for the past several weeks. (Graphic) http://www.you …

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Every time I have to travel to Egypt, my heart jumps with joy like a little girl about to go to an amusement park. Egypt has and will always have a special place in my heart. It was the place I was born, it’s where I went to university, where I first f …

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The following post first appeared at CBSNews.com.  ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan — It is impossible for most of us to understand what life is like for the more than half-million Syrian refugees living in Jordan. Most have fled the violence and chaos of …

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The assessment of Western intelligence agencies that Syria used chemical weapons against opposition rebels has placed the U.S. in a quandary. After President Barack Obama announced in August “that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of c …

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I have to confess that when I set foot in Erbil Airport three weeks ago, I was nervous. I was on my way to visit Iraqi Kurdistan’s Domiz refugee camp, and I had not been to the Kurdistan region of Iraq in more than 13 years. Back then, when I worked wi …

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The following is an excerpt from a piece in Foreign Affairs entitled “Fact-Finding in Syria: How to Gather Intelligence in a War Zone.” In the magazine’s May 2 issue, writer Vejas Liulevicius discusses the difficulties of gathering hard evidence in a c …

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Sasha Ghosh-Siminoff is the Executive Director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force. He’s based in Washington, DC. It was my third trip to the Turkey-Syria border, the same trip on which I would enter Syria for the first time since leaving Aleppo in 2011 …

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There is no way to sum up my friend Austin. When I try, I think of passion, tenacity, humor and, oddly enough, Taylor Swift. Austin is a hard-driving conflict correspondent, a former Marine, a student at Georgetown law school. But Taylor’s country pop …

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Clare Morgana Gillis is an American journalist. She has reported from Egypt, Libya, Syria and Mali for The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy and USA Today, among others. Currently based in Istanbul, she holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. How do I su …

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