Baraa Khurfan is a former Nonresident Fellow at TIMEP focusing on governance, politics, and the economy in Syria. His research interests include foreign policy analysis, governance, and political economy and he is currently an Assistant Researcher at the Omran Center for Strategic Studies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from İstanbul Şehir University. You can follow him on Twitter here: @BaraaKhurfan.