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Adam Gallagher, Program Manager
Adam Gallagher has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from Ohio Northern University. After graduating he received the State Department – Critical Language Scholarship for Arabic and lived in Amman, Jordan. He has previously worked as a Research Assistant for the American Task Force on Palestine and as the Assistant Director of the Camp David III seminar. |
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Jessica Katz, Webmaster and Regional Program Manager
Jessica Katz has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Religion from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Arts in History from Cornell University. She has previously presented original scholarship in domestic and international conferences. During her time at Cornell, she assisted in teaching classes on topics ranging from the role of violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
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Hassan Shams, Arabic Editor-in-Chief
Born and raised in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Hassan Shams completed his Bachelor’s in Journalism and Media from Damascus University in 1997. Shortly after graduation, Shams began reporting extensively on political issues for the Levant and the greater Middle East. He spent two years as the Golan Heights correspondent of France Radio Monte-Carlo, and is a regular contributor for a variety of Arabic newspapers including al-Nahar, as-Safir, Al-Mustaqbal, and Beirut Times. |
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Khawla Yusuf, Communications Officer
Khawla Yusuf, a Syrian human rights and pro-democracy activist, is the co-founder of the original Tharwa Project, the independent initiative launched in Damascus, Syria in 2001, and that eventually gave birth to the Tharwa Foundation. Coming from a traditional Islamic family, she had to first endure the loss of her father in 1981 at the hands of the Syrian regime's security apparatus, then the loss of her first husband to cancer in Saudi Arabia in 1992, before embarking on a path that led her to rebel against traditional mores and become a vocal women's rights activist. She was born on September 26, 1968. She currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Ammar Abdulhamid and their two children |
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