Hanna Davis is a freelance journalist, covering politics, foreign policy, and humanitarian affairs. She has worked in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Cyprus, and Poland, and has been lucky to call Beirut home for the past three years. Her work has appeared in Newlines Magazine, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, Syria Direct, The New Statesman, Courrier International, The New Arab, Al-Monitor, Inkstick Media, and openDemocracy.

Hanna has covered topics from the Assad regime’s siege of Rukban camp in Syria to captagon and crystal meth abuse in Jordan, and more recently Israel’s war on Lebanon and the fall of the Syrian regime.

She was formerly an editor at The Jordan Times in Amman.

Hanna has a BA in Public Policy and Global Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Virginia. She speaks advanced Levantine Arabic and has completed a 2-day Hostile Environment Training Course for journalists with Cerberus Global.

Hanna grew up at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia.