Rasha Elass
Senior Editor
Rasha Elass is a senior editor at Newlines. She is an investigative journalist, war correspondent, playwright and memoirist. She is editor-at-large at Tehranbureau.com. Born in Damascus, Rasha grew up in Europe and the Middle East, where she also spent over a decade reporting on various stories. She currently resides in Washington, D.C.
Latest from Rasha Elass
Between Insurrection and Revolution
Years later, after leaving the country and then returning as a journalist, I would ask fellow Syrians what they understood themselves to be. “What is Syria? Who is Syria?” I asked anyone who listened. “What does it mean to be a citizen of Syria?”
The Boy on the Bicycle
After the Syrian regime attacked a rebel-controlled part of Damascus with sarin gas in August 2013, I smuggled my way in to report on life in the besieged area