Jad Abdel Nour

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Jad Abdel Nour (LinkedIn) is a junior at Yale University, majoring in Global Affairs and Modern Middle East Studies with an Advanced Language Certificate in Modern Arabic. He assists Dr. Radwan Ziadeh’s research on the Syrian political transition and transitional justice at the Arab Center Washington DC, and contributes to research and testing of an AI agent at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs to support frontline workers serving displaced children. This semester, he serves as an Intern on the Refugee Representation Team at Human Rights First, and he interned this past summer at the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations.

Articles by this author:

Patches of water by a bridge in the mostly-dry riverbed of Syria's Orontes (Assi) river during an extreme drought in the city of Jisr al-Shughur in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.

Don’t Let Syria’s Recovery Become Collateral Damage in the Iran-U.S. War

Sep. 15, 2026 Dafna H. Rand and Jad Abdel Nour