Tam Hussein is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer who has reported on jihadist networks, foreign fighters, trafficking and crime. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism. An associate editor at New Lines magazine and a specialist producer for ITV News, he is the author of "To The Mountains: My Life in Jihad, From Algeria to Afghanistan," "The Travels of Ibn Fudayl" and "The Darkness Inside."
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) is a nonprofit organization that promotes democracy, the rule of law, and human rights for all of the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).