Hassan Hassan

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Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan discusses his work on extremism at the Wilson Center
Born1982
Al-Shaafah, Syria
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham University of Damascus
Occupation(s)Author, journalist, scholar

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.[1][2][3][4] He has written on Islamist groups in the Middle East.[5][6] He frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor,[7] Amanpour[8] and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell,[9] and has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, and The Daily Beast, among others.[10] Hassan is the founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine.[11]

Background[edit]

Hassan is from the town of Al-Shaafah in Al-Bukamal District, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.[12] In 1996, he moved from ash-Sha'fa to the city of Al Bukamal for high school.

In 2000, he moved to Damascus to study English literature at Damascus University.[13] In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he completed an MA in International relations at the University of Nottingham.[14]

Career[edit]

Journalism[edit]

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.[14] 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.[11]

In particular, Hassan covered the Syrian conflict since the uprising began in 2011.[15] 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.[15]

After moving to Washington, D.C., in 2016, Hassan continued writing for The National,[11] and was also a regular contributing writer to The Atlantic.[16] In addition, Hassan has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and the Daily Beast.[10]

Academia[edit]

In Washington, D.C., Hassan has been involved in policy research, in parallel to his journalistic work.[11] He specialized in the study of Sunni and Shia militant organizations, as well as Iraq, Syria, and the Persian Gulf.[14]

His research was commissioned by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,[17] European Council on Foreign Relations,[18][19] Chatham House,[20] Royal United Services Institute,[21] Brookings Institution, and[22] University of Oxford's Gulf studies forum.[23]

He previously worked as an associate fellow at Chatham House,[20] a senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy,[24][14] a senior researcher at George Washington University,[10] and a director at the Center for Global Policy.[25] He was also a research associate at the Delma Institute in the United Arab Emirates.[26]

Hassan is currently a director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, a think tank in Washington D.C.[10] He was responsible for founding the institute’s Human Security Unit, before establishing New Lines Magazine.

Testifying in Congress[edit]

Hassan has advised officials in the United States and the Middle East. In June 2016, Hassan testified before the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on the extremist ideology of ISIS,[27][28] a widely covered hearing.[29][30][31][32] In February 2017, he testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on defeating terrorism in Syria.[33]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

In 2015, Hassan authored a book with Michael Weiss on the rise of the militant group ISIS, titled ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.[34] His book was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of 10 must-read works on the evolution of terrorism in the Middle East,[35] one of the London Times' Best Books of 2015,[36] and The New York Times Editors' Choice in April 2015.[37] The book was reviewed favorably twice by The New York Times.[38][39] Times' chief book critic, Michiko Kakutani, said the book gave readers "a fine-grained look at the organization’s evolution through assorted incarnations."[39] It has been translated into over a dozen languages.[11]

On December 24, 2019, Hassan published his translation of a speech of Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian militant group Tahrir al-Sham, the successor organisation of the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.[40]

New Lines Magazine[edit]

Hassan founded New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine, in October 2020. Since then, he has acted as its editor-in-chief.[41] The magazine was initially launched by the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy to showcase the best writing from the Middle East. In September 2022, Hassan announced that the magazine would be broadening its coverage to publish stories from around the world.[42]

Hassan told the Reuters Institute in 2021 that the magazine was launched in response to Western journalists’ reliance on outdated views of the Middle East, which pervades coverage of the region.[43]

Harvard University’s Nieman Lab describes New Lines Magazine’s mission as “to serve audiences that want to read long-form, narrative journalism,” with an emphasis on "local reporting from journalists and experts".[44]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hassan Hassan". The Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Negus, Steve (April 2015). "ISIS:Inside the Army of Terror". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  3. ^ "Hassan Hassan on How to Uproot ISIS in Deir Ezzor". News Deeply. October 27, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  4. ^ "Book Discussion on ISIS Hassan Hassan, co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror". C-SPAN. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  5. ^ Hassan, Hassan (February 7, 2015). "Isis has reached new depths of depravity. But there is a brutal logic behind it". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  6. ^ "Eight Experts To Watch On Syria's Islamist Groups". Syria Deeply. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  7. ^ O'Reilly, Bill. "Bill O'Reilly: The O'Reilly Factor – U.S. Ineffective in Fighting ISIS". www.billoreilly.com. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  8. ^ U.S. and the West 'out of cards to play' in Syria – CNN Video, February 16, 2016, retrieved October 31, 2016
  9. ^ Hassan Hassan (November 29, 2015), Hassan Hassan on the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, retrieved October 31, 2016
  10. ^ a b c d "Hassan Hassan - New Lines Institute". New Lines Institute. January 24, 2024. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d e "Hassan Hassan - New Lines Magazine". New Lines Magazine. January 11, 2024. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
  12. ^ "Making Sense of ISIS: an interview with Michael Weiss". Fathom. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  13. ^ "Sign Up | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  14. ^ a b c d "Hassan Hassan". The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. Archived from the original on September 24, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  15. ^ a b "'Why Would Someone Participate in the Beheading of Their Cousin?' Talking With an Author Who Interviewed Dozens of ISIS Members". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved November 18, 2016.
  16. ^ "All stories by Hassan Hassan - The Atlantic". The Atlantic. January 24, 2024. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  17. ^ Hassan, Hassan. "The Sectarianism of the Islamic State: Ideological Roots and Political Context". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  18. ^ "Syria: the view from the Gulf states". ECFR. June 13, 2013. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  19. ^ The Gulf and sectarianism. November 13, 2013.
  20. ^ a b "Hassan Hassan Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme". Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank. Chatham House. Archived from the original on August 15, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  21. ^ "Understanding Iran's Role in the Syrian Conflict". RUSI. August 1, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  22. ^ "Experts weigh in (part 7): Is ISIS good at governing?". Brookings Institution. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  23. ^ "GCC Security Amid Regional Crises". www.oxgaps.org. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  24. ^ "Understanding the Islamic State's Strategy: Hassan Hassan on Last Week's Terrorism Events". Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. November 19, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
  25. ^ "Hassan Hassan - Center for Global Policy". Center for Global Policy. January 13, 2021. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 24, 2024.
  26. ^ "Hassan Hassan – The Cairo Review of Global Affairs". The Cairo Review of Global Affairs. February 2, 2024. Archived from the original on September 28, 2021.
  27. ^ "Hearings". Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  28. ^ Hassan Hassan (June 27, 2016), Hassan's testimony before the Senate's Homeland Security & Govt Affairs Committee, retrieved November 24, 2016
  29. ^ "Experts: The next president will face a more dangerous ISIS". Washington Examiner. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  30. ^ "Gains against Islamic State not yet enough, could backfire: U.S. officials". Reuters. June 22, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  31. ^ Seldin, Jeff. "Yazidi Woman Pleads With US to Hold IS Accountable". VOA. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  32. ^ "Syrian Refugee Subhi Nahas Gives Voice to LGBTQ Asylum-Seekers". NBC News. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  33. ^ "Subcommittee Hearing: Defeating Terrorism in Syria: A New Way Forward". House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on January 3, 2019. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  34. ^ Weiss, Michael; Hassan, Hassan (February 17, 2015). ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (First ed.). Regan Arts. ISBN 978-1-941393-57-4.
  35. ^ Russell, Anna. "10 Must-Read Books on the Evolution of Terrorism in the Middle East". WSJ. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  36. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  37. ^ "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. April 10, 2015. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  38. ^ Negus, Steve (April 1, 2015). "'ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,' and More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  39. ^ a b Kakutani, Michiko (April 2, 2015). "Review: 'ISIS: The State of Terror,' by Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger, and 'ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,' by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 19, 2016.
  40. ^ "Russia's relentless and vicious campaign in NW Syria, where millions of civilians and IDPs live and could be forced to flee en masse, continues. The leader of the force that dominates that area has a new speech. A new & dangerous chapter is looming. Details in following tweets". Hassan Hassan on YouTube. December 24, 2019.
  41. ^ "New Lines Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 - New Lines Institute" (PDF). New Lines Institute. January 31, 2024. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  42. ^ "New Lines Broadens Its Horizons to Include the Whole World | New Lines Magazine". New Lines Magazine. September 12, 2022. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  43. ^ "Newlinesmag.com: a fresh voice from the Middle East - YouTube". YouTube. April 28, 2021. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  44. ^ "How New Lines Magazine built a home for long-form international reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab". Nieman Journalism Lab. January 4, 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2024.

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