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Farrah Hassen is the 2008 Carol Jean and Edward F. Newman Fellow. Her projects include working on a film about the history of IPS, expanding her Master’s thesis on “Syria and the Iraq War” and publishing articles on US-Syria relations, US policy in the Middle East, Iraq, Iran and the Middle East peace process.

Born in the UAE, raised in the USA, Farrah holds a Master’s in International Affairs from American University’s School of International Service, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2007. She received her BA in Political Science at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she was honored as the “Outstanding Political Science Graduate” of 2004. She served as IPS Fellow Saul Landau’s research assistant from 2001-2004 and interned for the Institute’s Global Economy project in 2002. Farrah received the Institute’s Seymour Melman Fellowship in 2005, which allowed her to travel to Syria and research US-Syrian relations, Syrian foreign policy and the nascent reform process. Among other experiences, Farrah interned at the UNDP office in Damascus in 2004, worked as Harry Belafonte’s executive assistant in New York and served as the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s (ADC) Southern California organizer in 2005. She also worked as a research assistant at the National Security Archive in Washington D.C., documenting the lead-up, entry and conduct of the 2003 war in Iraq by using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to access key documents. Farrah’s numerous political commentaries, movie and book reviews and poetic attempts have appeared in publications including Counterpunch, Progreso Weekly, The Progressive Media Project, ZNet, Foreign Policy in Focus, Creative Syria, Common Dreams and Race and Class.
 

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Farrah Hassen

Carol & Ed Newman Fellow

farrah@ips-dc.org

Recent Work

Speech
To the Chicago City Council, a Resolution Opposing War on Iran
May 13 - I’d like to thank the City Council of Chicago today for their time and consideration of this important resolution. I am Farrah Hassen, Carol and Ed Newman Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. I speak as an Arab and Muslim American who has family in the Middle East, has visited the region, and for full disclosure, loves America but is concerned about the direction of U.S. policy in the region. By Farrah Hassen.

Op-Ed
Petraeus Promotion an Ominous Sign of Possible War with Iran
April 24 - The promotion of Gen. David Petraeus is another ominous sign that the Bush administration may attack Iran. By Farrah Hassen, published in Chicago Tribune, Fremont Tribune, Lake Expo, Oman Tribune, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, RINF, Salt Spring News, The Anniston Star, The Belleville News-Democrat, The Bellingham Herald, The Fresno Bee, The Hartford Courant, The Island Packet, The Monitor, The News and Observer, The Progressive, The Sacramento Bee, The Salt Lake Tribune, True Blue Liberal.

Report
Iran in the Crosshairs: How to Prevent Washington's Next War
February 28 - As George W. Bush’s administration enters its last year in office, the danger of a U.S. military attack on Iran looms. Widening opposition to the illegal Iraq War, growing recognition that the war in Afghanistan has failed to bring stability or democracy to that beleaguered country, new tensions rising in Pakistan, escalating violence and humanitarian crisis in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, all have brought new fears but also heightened interest in the wider Middle East region, especially interest in Iran. It is to address this new and renewed interest in Iran, to answer questions, and propose some ideas to prevent another looming disaster, that this pamphlet is designed. By the New Internationalism project.

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