• Current Chief of Staff of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
• Host of the "State of Play" podcast.
• Co-founded and led a non-profit organization for seven years, working with refugees and immigrants in the Washington DC area.
• Possesses over a decade of experience in conflict, governance, and displacement in the Middle East, with field research in 12 countries.
• Holds a BA in Arabic and modern Hebrew from Oxford University and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University.
• Serves as a Penn Kemble fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, a Global Diversity in International Affairs fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at St. Andrews University.

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