Wael Sawah is Executive Director of The Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression and Editor-in-Chief of The Syrian Observer. His research interests include civil society in Syria, and he is author of a number of research papers and books in both Arabic and English. Wael is a member of the Annual Middle East Legal Studies Seminar at Yale University, a board member for the Day After Association, a founding member of the Arab Rationalists League, based in Paris, and Editor of the website Al-Awan.