Issam Khoury - عصام خوري

Writer, Journalist, filmmaker, Non-profit exec
In 2003, He founded in Syria an NGO Center for Environmental and Social Development, and in 2017 CESD started work as a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3), international human rights organization based in New York.
He is a journalist and political activist from Syria with more than 20 years of experience in writing and conducting research on politics, governance, Islamic groups, human rights, culture, and arts for major news media in the Middle East and North Africa. Whether it is in the actual war zone or among the refugees crossing borders for safety, his writing has always focused on telling the truth, which has often brought him into a face-to-face confrontation with those opposing freedom of expression and the press in the Middle East.
He has an author of three novels and written more than 700 reports and an expert on political/social trends and personalities. Also, He is the first journalist to report on the revolution while still in Syria.