Tam Hussein is an award-winning writer and journalist specializing in the Middle East. He spent several years in the Middle East and North Africa working as a translator and consultant. He also writes for the <em>Huffington Post</em>.

This Dance of Freedom

[caption id="attachment_55246885" align="alignnone" width="614"] Salah El Brogy performing Hurriyeh to calligraphy by Soraya Syed (both artists/ Nour…

No Time for the Olive Branch

[caption id="attachment_55246307" align="alignnone" width="620"]Samia Halaby"Sunrise Green" (Courtesy of the Ayyam Gallery)[/caption]In her words,…

Witness against an Immovable World

[caption id="attachment_55244956" align="alignnone" width="620"] The US embassy in London. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)[/caption]Somewhere between 200 and…

Homemade in Lattakia

[caption id="attachment_55238351" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrian fighters from Lattakia entering Turkey. Source: Tam Hussein[/caption] The…

Tunisia's Militant Struggle

[caption id="attachment_55244006" align="alignnone" width="620"] Tunisians paint a banner on July 30, 2013, in front of the Constituent Assembly…

Far from the Maddening Crowd

[caption id="attachment_55243696" align="alignnone" width="620"] Mohammed Ghanem. TAM HUSSEIN[/caption]Dr Mohammed Ghanem, the UK representative for…

A Deep State of Mind

[caption id="attachment_55242902" align="alignnone" width="620"] Grafitti marks the occasion when Tunisians successfully ousted their president Zine…

Refusing the Politics of Piety

[caption id="attachment_55242592" align="alignnone" width="620"] Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi. (Tam Hussein)[/caption]In 2012, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi went from…

Qaradawi’s Blunder

[caption id="attachment_55242060" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi joins the crowds on Tahrir square in Cairo on February 18,…