Lina Khatib
Head, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House
Lina Khatib is Head of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme at Chatham House. Formerly she was the Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut and prior to that the co-founding head of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She has published seven books including, Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle, Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism (co-edited with Ellen Lust), and The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (co-authored with Dina Matar and Atef Alshaer).
The battle to liberate Mosul in Iraq from the tentacles of the Islamic State (ISIS) is turning attention away from Syria, where fighting continues to rage. And whenever attention to Syria is given, [...] More
