Bio
Mateo Nelson
Mateo Nelson was a 2014-2015 fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad program (CASA I) in Amman, Jordan. Mateo holds a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, with a certificate in Arabic Language and Culture.
Latest Articles
‘They’re gone, but who has them?’ Afrin’s Kurdish FSA commanders, under pressure from all sides, go missing
A checkpoint in Afrin in May. Photo courtesy of Afrin […]
Rebel siege of two Shiite-majority Idlib towns ends with total evacuation of residents, militiamen
Evacuees from al-Fuaa and Kufraya arrive in government-held south Aleppo on […]
‘Deal underway’ for evacuation of two Shiite-majority Idlib towns: rebel source
Al-Fuaa and Kufraya residents calling for an end to the […]
Kurdish political body gains increased independence in opposition’s negotiating committee despite rankling over Afrin operation
Members of the Syrian High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in Riyadh […]
Released from government detention, an art therapist finds new meaning in her work: ‘It all goes out onto the paper’
Baraa Arar encourages her students to draw on the walls. […]
Civilians and Islamic State fighters pay thousands of dollars to leave south Damascus for opposition territories, Turkey
AMMAN: Smugglers are accepting enormous sums to bring civilians and […]
Revolutionaries, pawns, liberators, or mercenaries? Meet the Kurdish fighters participating in Turkey’s Afrin offensive
AMMAN: As a Turkish-led assault on a northwestern Syrian Kurdish […]
The network: A virtual hunt for suspected Islamic State members in Syria
AMMAN: Aghid al-Khodr wakes up early, before the sun rises. […]
Opposition fighters wage counter-offensive in Idlib to drive back Syrian army advances
AMMAN: Syrian rebels said they recaptured several villages in southeastern […]
A power struggle over education emerges between rival opposition governments in Idlib province
AMMAN: The students of Free Aleppo University satellite campuses in […]