Professional Affiliation

Journalist, Voice of America

Expert Bio

Nisan Ahmado is a multimedia journalist with Voice of America's Extremism Watch Desk. A Kurdish Yazidi from Syria, she specializes in analysis of Middle Eastern current affairs, with a focus on Syria and U.S. policy in the region. She has lived and worked in Damascus, Riyadh, Dubai, New York and Washington, D.C. Nisan's reporting has covered such areas as geopolitics, history and culture, and includes humanitarian profiles of people on the ground. She also writes about minorities, women’s empowerment, and art as a medium to create a more comprehensive reality. Nisan is a contributing author to the anthology 'Demanding Dignity: Young Voices From the Front Lines of the Arab Revolutions.'