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Mona Alami on why she writes

Al-Monitor contributor Mona Alami shares her thoughts on journalism.
Lebanese news photographers work during a protest against the forced closure of media institutions on Friday by Hezbollah gunmen and its allies in Beirut May 10, 2008. The Shi'ite movement Hezbollah tightened its control of the Lebanese capital on Saturday in a show of force after it routed gunmen loyal to the western-backed government.  REUTERS/Jamal Saidi (LEBANON) - RTX5JNR

Mona Alami has been writing for Al-Monitor since September 2014. A French-Lebanese journalist and a fellow at the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East of the Atlantic Council, she writes about political and economic issues in the Arab world, mainly in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates.

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