A highly qualified team

Firas Masri is a political officer with The Shaikh Group (TSG), working on the Syria Track II Dialogue Initiative. Before joining TSG, he was a research assistant at the Brookings Doha Center, where he focused on conflict resolution, geopolitics, post-conflict reconstruction, and security issues related to the Middle East and North Africa.

Firas holds a BA in Middle East Studies and Arabic from Emory University and an MA in Middle East Studies and Security Policy from George Washington University.