Brooke Anderson
Anderson
Brooke is The New Arab's Washington, DC correspondent. She did her BA in Geography of the Middle East at the University of London, SOAS, where she wrote a dissertation on water policy in Syria and Turkey. She spent five years in Damascus, where she studied Arabic and worked as a journalist and eight years in Beirut, where she mainly worked as a journalist. She has won awards for writing about police brutality in the US and Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Areas of focus: US foreign policy, Arab and Muslim communities in the US, political movements in the US
Follow her on Twitter: @Brookethenews