Tam Hussein is an award-winning writer and journalist specializing in the Middle East. He spent several years in the Middle East and North Africa working as a translator and consultant. He also writes for the <em>Huffington Post</em>.

Homemade in Lattakia

[caption id="attachment_55238351" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian fighters from Lattakia entering Turkey. Source: Tam Hussein[/caption] The…

Witness against an Immovable World

[caption id="attachment_55244956" align="alignnone" width="620"] The US embassy in London. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)[/caption]Somewhere between 200 and…

No Time for the Olive Branch

[caption id="attachment_55246307" align="alignnone" width="620"]Samia Halaby"Sunrise Green" (Courtesy of the Ayyam Gallery)[/caption]In her words,…

This Dance of Freedom

[caption id="attachment_55246885" align="alignnone" width="614"] Salah El Brogy performing Hurriyeh to calligraphy by Soraya Syed (both artists/ Nour…

A Brotherhood Vision for Syria

[caption id="attachment_55247036" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ali Al-Bayanouni. (Tam Hussein)[/caption] In Syria, Al-Qaeda and affiliated groups…

The Tunisia that Time Forgot

While the political elite in Tunis are wrangling over the future of the country, there are parts of Tunisia that time has simply forgotten. The…

I, the Artist and the Syrian

[caption id="attachment_55247534" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tammam Azzam (Courtesy of the Ayyam Gallery)[/caption] Tammam Azzam doesn’t claim…

Fetteh in ISIS Country

[caption id="attachment_55248019" align="alignnone" width="620"] A rebel fighter walks in a street of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January…

Moving Mountains in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55248246" align="alignnone" width="620"] ‘The miraculous minaret’ no longer. (Tam Hussein)[/caption] A year ago the villages…

Jihad, Then and Now

[caption id="attachment_55248466" align="alignnone" width="620"] Abdullah Anas speaks with The Majalla. (The Majalla/Tam Hussein)[/caption] As the…