Sophie Chamas is a Beirut-based journalist and co-editor of Mashallah News, an online publishing platform for alternative stories from the Middle East. Her work has been featured in Al Jazeera English, CBC News, RTE, Reuters and Jadaliyya, among other publications. In 2012 she was awarded the Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalism Award in the category of online media.
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