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Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan (born 1982) is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin. He co-wrote the 2015 New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Michael Weiss. He has written on Islamist groups in the Middle East. He frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Amanpour and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, and has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and The Daily Beast. Hassan is the founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine.
Hassan is from the town of Al-Shaafah in Al-Bukamal District, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. In 1996, he moved from ash-Sha'fa to the city of Al Bukamal for high school.[citation needed]
In 2000, he moved to Damascus to study English literature at Damascus University. In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he completed an MA in International relations at the University of Nottingham.
After graduation, Hassan moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2008 to work as a news reporter for the then newly-launched English-language daily The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, covering domestic and Gulf affairs. After the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings, he joined its opinion section as a weekly columnist, and later became the department’s deputy editor.
In particular, Hassan covered the Syrian conflict since the uprising began in 2011. His research on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) included extensive interviews with members of the organization since its rise in his home region in June 2014.
After moving to Washington, D.C., in 2016, Hassan continued writing for The National, and was also a regular contributing writer to The Atlantic. In addition, Hassan has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and the Daily Beast.
In Washington, D.C., Hassan has been involved in policy research, in parallel to his journalistic work. He specialized in the study of Sunni and Shia militant organizations, as well as Iraq, Syria, and the Persian Gulf.
His research was commissioned by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, European Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, Royal United Services Institute, Brookings Institution, and University of Oxford's Gulf studies forum.
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Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan (born 1982) is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin. He co-wrote the 2015 New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror with Michael Weiss. He has written on Islamist groups in the Middle East. He frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Amanpour and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, and has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and The Daily Beast. Hassan is the founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine.
Hassan is from the town of Al-Shaafah in Al-Bukamal District, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. In 1996, he moved from ash-Sha'fa to the city of Al Bukamal for high school.[citation needed]
In 2000, he moved to Damascus to study English literature at Damascus University. In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he completed an MA in International relations at the University of Nottingham.
After graduation, Hassan moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2008 to work as a news reporter for the then newly-launched English-language daily The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, covering domestic and Gulf affairs. After the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings, he joined its opinion section as a weekly columnist, and later became the department’s deputy editor.
In particular, Hassan covered the Syrian conflict since the uprising began in 2011. His research on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) included extensive interviews with members of the organization since its rise in his home region in June 2014.
After moving to Washington, D.C., in 2016, Hassan continued writing for The National, and was also a regular contributing writer to The Atlantic. In addition, Hassan has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and the Daily Beast.
In Washington, D.C., Hassan has been involved in policy research, in parallel to his journalistic work. He specialized in the study of Sunni and Shia militant organizations, as well as Iraq, Syria, and the Persian Gulf.
His research was commissioned by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, European Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, Royal United Services Institute, Brookings Institution, and University of Oxford's Gulf studies forum.