Pauline Vacher
Pauline Vacher is a freelance journalist currently based in Damascus, with a master’s degree in Middle Eastern geopolitics from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. She previously worked on the international desk at L’Orient-Le Jour in Beirut and later joined the investigations unit at Reporters Without Borders. Today, she continues to report on the Middle East from Syria.
Latest from Pauline Vacher
Inside Syria’s First Post-Assad Elections
In a country long accustomed to stage-managed politics, Syria’s first elections after the fall of Bashar al-Assad offered both the trappings of democracy, and a revealing look at a process of improvisation.