Leadership: Joel Rayburn Michael Doran Rania Kisar
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Joel Rayburn
Founder and Director
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Michael Doran
Board Member
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Rania Kisar
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Research Fellows: Almoutassim AL KILANI
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Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Branch Director Europe
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Almoutassim AL KILANI
Research Fellow
Contributors : Anwar Al-Bunni Mithal Jamal Al-Alusi Muhydin Lazikani Khaled Shehab Aldeen
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Anwar Al-Bunni
Senior Visiting Fellow
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Mithal Jamal Al-Alusi
Senior Visiting Fellow
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Muhydin Lazikani
Senior Visiting Fellow
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Khaled Shehab Aldeen
Senior Visiting Fellow
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Saman Shali
Senior Visiting Fellow
Partners & Affiliations : Hoover Institution Hudson New America Syrian Centre for Legal Studies
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New America
newamerica.org
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Syrian Centre for Legal Studies
sl-center.org