Joud Hasan
Joud Hasan joined CPJ in January 2026 as the Levant Program Coordinator. He has worked at the intersection of journalism, research, and program management for nearly two decades. His reporting and editorial work has focused on civic movements, displacement, and state violence, covering key developments in Syria since 2011, and later in Iraq and Lebanon. Alongside his journalism, he has led and coordinated multidisciplinary initiatives with international and civil society organizations across civic engagement, art and culture, human rights, and digital rights. In 2013, Hasan received the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. He is the author of Table Ground (Syrian Association for Citizenship, 2014) and wrote Journalism and Creative Writing: A Handbook for Citizen-Journalists in Conflict Areas (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2016). A native of Syria, Hasan received his bachelor’s degree in media and journalism from Damascus University.
‘I’m displaced too’: Lebanese journalists cover war after fleeing home
Beirut, March 18, 2026 – In early March, as the Iran war spread across the Middle East and Israeli strikes rained down on Lebanon, many journalists covering the country’s growing displacement crisis found themselves living it. For freelance video journalist Hadil Iskandar, who has worked for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle and pan-Arab outlet Daraj Media,…