Hassan Hassan Explained

Hassan Hassan
Birth Place:Al-Shaafah, Syria
Occupation:Author, journalist, scholar
Alma Mater:University of Nottingham University of Damascus

Hassan Hassan (born 1982) is an American author and journalist of Syrian origin. He co-wrote the 2015 New York Times bestseller 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 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, among others.[8] Hassan is the founder and editor-in-chief of New Lines Magazine, a global affairs magazine.[9]

Background

Hassan is from the town of Al-Shaafah in Al-Bukamal District, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border.[10] 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.[11] In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he completed an MA in International relations at the University of Nottingham.[12]

Career

Journalism

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.[13] 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.[14] In addition, Hassan has written for The Guardian, the New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and the Daily Beast.

Academia

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,[15] European Council on Foreign Relations,[16] [17] Chatham House, Royal United Services Institute,[18] Brookings Institution, and[19] University of Oxford's Gulf studies forum.[20]

He previously worked as an associate fellow at Chatham House,[21] a senior fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy,[22] a senior researcher at George Washington University, and a director at the Center for Global Policy.[23] He was also a research associate at the Delma Institute in the United Arab Emirates.[24]

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

Testifying in Congress

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,[25] a widely covered hearing.[26] [27] [28] [29] In February 2017, he testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on defeating terrorism in Syria.[30]

Publications

Books

In 2015, Hassan authored a book with Michael Weiss on the rise of the militant group ISIS, titled .[31] 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,[32] one of the London Times Best Books of 2015,[33] and The New York Times Editors' Choice in April 2015.[34] The book was reviewed favorably twice in The New York Times,[35] [36] The Guardian,[37] and The Wall Street Journal.[38] The 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.

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

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. 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.[42]

In September 2022, Hassan announced that the magazine was broadening its coverage to publish stories from around the world.[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] The magazine has featured regular contributions by journalists like Clarissa Ward,[45] Arwa Damon[46] or Hala Gorani,[47] and public figures like former U.S. diplomat Robert Ford,[48] Syrian intellectual Mustafa Khalifa[49] or musician Alex Skolnick.[50]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hassan Hassan . The Guardian . June 30, 2016.
  2. News: ISIS:Inside the Army of Terror . The New York Times . April 2015 . June 30, 2016 . Negus . Steve .
  3. Web site: Hassan Hassan on How to Uproot ISIS in Deir Ezzor . October 27, 2014 . News Deeply . June 30, 2016.
  4. Web site: Book Discussion on ISIS Hassan Hassan, co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror . C-SPAN . June 30, 2016.
  5. News: Isis has reached new depths of depravity. But there is a brutal logic behind it. Hassan. Hassan. February 7, 2015. The Guardian. en-GB. 0261-3077. 2016-10-31.
  6. News: Eight Experts To Watch On Syria's Islamist Groups. Syria Deeply. 2016-10-31.
  7. Web site: Bill O'Reilly: The O'Reilly Factor – U.S. Ineffective in Fighting ISIS. O'Reilly. Bill. www.billoreilly.com . 2016-10-31.
  8. Web site: 24 January 2024 . Hassan Hassan - New Lines Institute . 24 January 2024 . New Lines Institute.
  9. Web site: 11 January 2024 . Hassan Hassan - New Lines Magazine . 11 January 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  10. News: Making Sense of ISIS: an interview with Michael Weiss. Fathom. 2016-11-18.
  11. Web site: Sign Up LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com. 2016-11-24.
  12. Web site: Hassan Hassan . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180924213532/https://timep.org/author/hassan/ . 2018-09-24 . 2016-10-31 . The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy . en-US.
  13. News: 'Why Would Someone Participate in the Beheading of Their Cousin?' Talking With an Author Who Interviewed Dozens of ISIS Members . 2016-11-18 . Daily Intelligencer.
  14. Web site: 24 January 2024 . All stories by Hassan Hassan - The Atlantic . 24 January 2024 . The Atlantic.
  15. Web site: The Sectarianism of the Islamic State: Ideological Roots and Political Context. Hassan. Hassan. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2016-11-24.
  16. Web site: Syria: the view from the Gulf states. ECFR. June 13, 2013 . 2016-11-24.
  17. Book: The Gulf and sectarianism. November 13, 2013 .
  18. News: Understanding Iran's Role in the Syrian Conflict. August 1, 2016. RUSI. 2016-11-24.
  19. News: Experts weigh in (part 7): Is ISIS good at governing? . Brookings Institution. en-US. 2016-11-24.
  20. Web site: GCC Security Amid Regional Crises. www.oxgaps.org. 2016-11-24.
  21. Web site: Hassan Hassan Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160815103425/https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/hassan-hassan . 15 August 2016 . June 30, 2016 . Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank . Chatham House.
  22. Web site: Understanding the Islamic State's Strategy: Hassan Hassan on Last Week's Terrorism Events . Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy . November 19, 2015 . June 30, 2016.
  23. Web site: 13 January 2021 . Hassan Hassan - Center for Global Policy . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210113022506/https://cgpolicy.org/author/hassan/ . 13 January 2021 . 24 January 2024 . Center for Global Policy.
  24. Web site: 2 February 2024 . Hassan Hassan – The Cairo Review of Global Affairs . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20210928060135/https://www.thecairoreview.com/contributors/hassan-hassan/ . 28 September 2021 . The Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
  25. Web site: Hearings . Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. 2016-11-24.
  26. News: Experts: The next president will face a more dangerous ISIS . Washington Examiner. 2017-02-15.
  27. News: Gains against Islamic State not yet enough, could backfire: U.S. officials. June 22, 2017. Reuters. 2017-02-15.
  28. News: Yazidi Woman Pleads With US to Hold IS Accountable. Seldin. Jeff. VOA. 2017-02-15. en.
  29. News: Syrian Refugee Subhi Nahas Gives Voice to LGBTQ Asylum-Seekers. NBC News. 2017-02-15. en.
  30. News: Subcommittee Hearing: Defeating Terrorism in Syria: A New Way Forward. House Committee on Foreign Affairs. 2017-02-15. en-US. 2019-01-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20190103153859/https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/subcommittee-hearing-defeating-terrorism-syria-new-way-forward/. dead.
  31. Book: Weiss . Michael . ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror . Hassan . Hassan . February 17, 2015 . Regan Arts. . 978-1-941393-57-4 . First . English.
  32. News: Russell . Anna . 10 Must-Read Books on the Evolution of Terrorism in the Middle East . 2016-11-19 . WSJ.
  33. Web site: Noble . Barnes & . ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition) . 2016-11-19 . Barnes & Noble.
  34. News: April 10, 2015 . Editors' Choice . 2016-11-19 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  35. News: Negus . Steve . April 1, 2015 . 'ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,' and More . 2016-11-19 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  36. News: 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 . 2016-11-19 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  37. Web site: Yassin-Kassab . Robin . March 28, 2015 . Isis: Inside the Army of Terror; The Rise of Islamic State – review . September 18, 2016 . The Guardian.
  38. Web site: Traub . James . James Traub . March 14, 2015 . The Demonic Wellspring . September 26, 2016 . The Wall Street Journal.
  39. News: 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 . 2016-11-19 . The New York Times . 0362-4331.
  40. News: December 24, 2019 . 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 . en-US.
  41. Web site: 31 January 2024 . New Lines Institute Annual Report 2020-2021 - New Lines Institute . 31 January 2024 . New Lines Institute.
  42. Web site: 28 April 2021 . Newlinesmag.com: a fresh voice from the Middle East - YouTube . 31 January 2024 . YouTube.
  43. Web site: 12 September 2022 . New Lines Broadens Its Horizons to Include the Whole World New Lines Magazine . 31 January 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  44. Web site: 4 January 2023 . How New Lines Magazine built a home for long-form international reporting Nieman Journalism Lab . 31 January 2024 . Nieman Journalism Lab.
  45. Web site: Clarissa Ward - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  46. Web site: Arwa Damon - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  47. Web site: Hala Gorani - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  48. Web site: Robert Ford - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  49. Web site: Mustafa Khalifa - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.
  50. Web site: Alex Skolnick - New Lines Magazine . 7 May 2024 . New Lines Magazine.

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