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Arwa Damon

Syrian-American Journalist & Former CNN Senior International Correspondent

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Arwa Damon is a former CNN Senior International Correspondent currently working on independent documentaries and other forms of storytelling through her company Scrappy Goat Media. Damon has over a decade of experience in war zones across the MENA region and has often focused her work on humanitarian stories. Damon has received extensive recognition for her work including TV and News Emmys, Peabodys, the Investigative Reporters and Editors award, and the International Women’s Media Foundation “Courage in Journalism” award. She founded the NGO INARA after she bore witness to the suffering of children in warzones for over a decade and a half.