MIDDLE EAST & REFUGEE ISSUES:
“A rabbi in the attic?” New Lines Magazine, November 2021
“A country being united through hiking,” BBC Travel, November 2021
“Lebanon’s other explosion,” Zocalo Public Square, October 2021
“Beirut to Belarus: Syrian refugees embark on new, perilous route toward longed-for EU asylum,” L’Orient Today, September 2021
“The night their world exploded: Victims and families share their accounts of the deadly Akkar blast,” L’Orient Today, August 2021
“Holding bay, refuge, dumping ground, home, war zone, community: The storied past of blast-devastated Karantina,” L’Orient Today, August 2021
“‘The worst adventure in my life’: Those desperate to leave a collapsing Lebanon pursue ever riskier routes out,” L’Orient Today, July 2021
“A murder in Fneideq: The curious case of Ali Salah Eddine,” L’Orient Today, May 2021
“Refugee students battle barriers to learning in Lebanon,” Financial Times, April 2021
“‘What is this place?’ Syrians recall life and death in prison,” Al Jazeera English, March 2021
“More than a ‘Hezbollah stronghold’: The complicated past and present of Haret Hreik,” L’Orient Today, March 2021
“Not hungry but frustrated: Omar Tayba’s family describes the brother and son who was killed in Tripoli’s protests,” L’Orient Today, February 2021
“After their refugee camp was burned down, aid flowed in. They are the ‘lucky’ ones,” L’Orient Today, January 2021
“Four months on, Beirut blast survivors struggle to rebuild,” The New Humanitarian, December 2020
“Thousands of refugee children in Arsal have no school to go to after the state ordered unlicensed centers to close,” L’Orient Today, October 2020
“Already struggling, Lebanon’s school system faces an existential crisis,” L’Orient Today, October 2020
“Beirut has rebuilt before. Here’s how the city will do it again,” National Geographic, September 2020
“Overlapping crises in Lebanon fuel a new migration to Cyprus,” The New Humanitarian, September 2020
“In Beirut, one family’s agony is a window to a nation’s suffering,” Los Angeles Times, August 2020
“What caused the Beirut blast seems clear; who, and why, is another question,” Los Angeles Times, August 2020
“In post-blast Lebanon, farmers struggle as food shortages feared,” The New Humanitarian, August 2020
“Palestinians in Lebanon say coronavirus help is too little, too late,” The New Humanitarian, May 2020
“A letter from Beirut, where the taxis have resumed honking,” Zocalo Public Square, May 2020
“How COVID-19 is limiting healthcare access for refugees in Lebanon,” The New Humanitarian, April 2020
“Coronavirus lockdown more harm than help for Lebanese who can’t afford to stay home,” Al Arabiya English, March 2020
“Concern Over Syria’s Claim of Zero Coronavirus Cases,” US News & World Report, March 2020
“Lebanon’s Crisis Reaching into Emergency Rooms,” US News & World Report, March 2020
“Syria Fighting in Dangerous New Phase,” US News & World Report, Feb. 2020
“Lebanon’s Crisis of Confidence in Government,” US News & World Report, Jan. 2020
“How Aid Groups Map Refugee Camps that Officially Don’t Exist,” WIRED, Jan. 2020
“Lebanon’s financial crisis hits Syrian refugees hard,” The New Humanitarian, Jan. 2020
“Key Takeaways from the first Global Refugee Forum,” The New Humanitarian, Dec. 2019
“How Lebanon’s ‘WhatsApp’ tax unleashed a flood of anger,” Public Radio International, Oct. 2019
“Why Protesters in Lebanon Are Taking to the Streets,” Foreign Policy, Nov. 2019
“Their city lacks public spaces, so Beirut residents made their own,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2019
“In Lebanon, a United Call for Change,” U.S. News & World Report, Oct. 2019
“Syrian deportations leave behind hardship, fear in Lebanon,” The New Humanitarian, Sept. 2019
“Fleeing bombs to battle cancer,” U.S. News & World Report, Sept. 2019
“Torn apart by the Syrian war, these siblings struggle to stay connected across 6 different countries,” Public Radio International, June 2019
“In Lebanon, a Push for Refugees to Go Home,” US News & World Report, June 2019
“Saving Beirut’s history,” Hadara Magazine, June 2019
“Syrians’ sponsorship is now a business,” The Daily Star, April 2019
“From Syrian refugee to Oscar nominee, ‘Capernaum’ star gets second chance at childhood in Norway,” Public Radio International, February 2019
“Ravaged by war, Beirut’s historic sites are being reimagined,” National Geographic Travel, January 2019
“Stalemate risks Lebanon’s fragile stability,” U.S. News & World Report, January 2019
“Perfect storm hits struggling refugees,” The Daily Star, January 2019
“Mixed race Lebanese face discrimination,” The Daily Star, January 2019
“Refugee maternal mortality ‘alarming,'” The Daily Star, December 2018
“Desperate bid for a better life ends in a tragedy at sea,” The Daily Star, November 2018
“Syrian doctors treat patients under the radar,” The Daily Star, November 2018
“Lebanon’s stateless: locked out of society,” The Daily Star, August 2018
“For Syrian refugees, Lebanon a meeting place,” The Daily Star, September 2018
“Companies make a business out of visa services for Syrians,” The Daily Star, August 2018
“Palestinians in Lebanon preserve bagpiping tradition,” The Daily Star, July 2018
“Flagging International Aid Worsens Conditions for Syrian Refugees,” U.S. News & World Report, June 2018
“This Beirut Hackerspace Brings Tech Startup Spirit to the Middle East,” GOOD Magazine, May 2018
“Young Adults’ Hopes, Doubts Cloud Lebanese Elections,” U.S. News & World Report, May 2018
“A Mother’s Right: Giving Citizenship,” U.S. News & World Report, March 2018
“Syria’s ‘selfie teen’ highlights the devastation of war — and the fog of war,” Nieman Storyboard, March 2018
“Staying on the Grid in Lebanon,” US News & World Report, February 2018
“How a cafe brings together warring rivals to mend their city’s wounds,” GOOD Magazine, February 2018
“On a theater’s stage, inmates get a taste of freedom,” GOOD Magazine, February 2018
“Already embattled, UNRWA in Lebanon faces new threats,” Middle East Eye, January 2018
“Living under a banner of ambiguity,” U.S. News & World Report, December 2017
“Palestinians in Lebanon less than half previous estimate, census shows,” Middle East Eye, December 2017
“Syrian refugees return from Lebanon, only to flee war once again,” Refugees Deeply. October 2017
“Evicted refugees in Lebanon have nowhere left to run,” Refugees Deeply, September 2017
“Just outside Syria’s capital, a battle still rages over one of the last rebel-held enclaves,” Los Angeles Times, August 2017
“Departure of Syrian rebels and refugees from Lebanon raises specter of forced returns,” Los Angeles Times, August 2017
“Lebanese town looks for relief after three tough years tied to Syrian civil war,” Los Angeles Times, August 2017
“Finding a life partner is hard enough. For those of the Druze faith, their future depends on it,” Los Angeles Times, August 2017
“Syrian comedy troupe’s brand of satire fails to amuse Assad government,” Los Angeles Times, July 2017
“Beirut is blocking its world famous beaches from the people who actually live there,” GOOD Magazine, July 2017
“Italian activists have a secret strategy to protect Syrian refugees in Lebanon,” GOOD Magazine, June 2017
“In Arab world, an ancient tradition of oral storytelling gets a 21st century spin,” Nieman Storyboard, June 2017
“A small town in Italy was losing population, so it turned to Syrian refugees for help,” Los Angeles Times, May 2017
“The roadblocks, and the dangers, for investigative journalists in the Arab world,” Nieman Storyboard, May 2017
“A Humanitarian Corridor Provides an Alternative to Bombs and Boats,” Refugees Deeply, April 2017
“Living in the Shadows, a Family Tries to Secure Its Children’s Future,”, Refugees Deeply, March 2017
“Here’s one way of fighting terrorism that the U.S. may be rethinking under Trump,” Los Angeles Times, March 2017
“An American in Lebanon Encounters Trump Supporters Far From Home,” Zocalo Public Square, December 2016
“Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila tackles homophobia, Islamophobia on U.S. tour,” Los Angeles Times, June 2016
“In Israel, secluded Arab village wants to be a tourist must-see,” Los Angeles Times, January 2015
TRAVEL WRITING
“Go inside the magical life of Europe’s family circuses,” National Geographic Travel, July 2018
“This epic mountain trail traverses the length of Lebanon,” National Geographic Travel, July 2018
“Hiking the scenic border-to-border Lebanon Mountain Trail,” Lonely Planet, March 2018
“Meet the man living in a lost city carved in stone,” National Geographic Travel, November 2017
“Meet the quirky hermit who lives on a sacred cliffside,” National Geographic Travel, October 2017
CRIMINAL JUSTICE, SOCIAL ISSUES, MENTAL HEALTH & LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
“Mentally ill inmates are swamping the state’s prisons and jails. Here’s one man’s story,” Los Angeles Times, June 2016
No one knows what’s behind L.A. County’s rise in mental competency cases, Los Angeles Times, February 2016
County turns to urgent care centers, rather than jails or ERs, to treat the mentally ill in crisis, Los Angeles Times, January 2016
Jesse is a typical boy in probation-run foster care: unwanted, Los Angeles Times, September 2015
Long waits outside L.A. County psychiatric units stall patients, police, Los Angeles Times, July 2015
“The nightmare outcome of a son’s mental illness,” Los Angeles Times, April 2015
“L.A. County struggles with felons bolting from probation,” Los Angeles Times, January 2014
“Casting a vote for chaos,” Los Angeles Times, October 2010
NUCLEAR ENERGY:
“How San Onofre’s new steam generators sealed nuclear plant’s fate,” Los Angeles Times, July 2013
“San Onofre nuclear plant to be closed permanently,” Los Angeles Times, June 2013
“San Onofre’s future hinges on finding cause of abnormal tube wear,” Los Angeles Times, May 2012