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Lina Sinjab

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Lina Sinjab
Occupation(s)Journalist, Filmmaker
EmployerBBC

Lina Sinjab is a Syrian journalist based in Lebanon, who is a Middle East correspondent for the BBC.[1]

She served as the BBC Syria correspondent until 2013, when she was forced to leave the country after threats from the government.[2]

Early life

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Sinjab graduated from Damascus University with a degree in English. After studying law at Beirut Arab University, she attended SOAS University of London, where she received an MA in international politics.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Lina Sinjab". Syria Deeply. The New Humanitarian. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  2. ^ Sinjab, Lina (9 December 2024). "Assad's police threatened to bury me and my reporting. Now I'm back, and free". BBC News. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  3. ^ Khatib, Lina; Sinjab, Lina (2024-04-04). "Syria's Transactional State". Chatham House Research Papers.
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