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Amberin Zaman is Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent based in London and covers major stories on the Middle East and North Africa from across the region and beyond. Zaman’s reporting focuses on geopolitical trends, diplomacy and human rights. She has covered conflicts in Iraq, Syria and the South Caucasus. Zaman is widely acknowledged for her courageous work on Turkey and the Kurds for which she was named a “Hero” by the Coalition for Women in Journalism. Prior to joining Al-Monitor as a full time reporter in 2018, Zaman was The Economist’s Turkey correspondent for 16 years. Zaman was also a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Los Angeles Times and Voice of America and penned weekly columns in the Turkish language media. Zaman, who studied political science at Franklin College in Lugano Switzerland, speaks fluent French, Turkish and Bengali. Follow her on Twitter @amberinzaman and Instagram @amberinzamanjournalist.
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![Smoke rises from an oil field in Al-Rmelan, Qamshli province November 11, 2013. With a string of military gains across northeastern Syria, a Kurdish militia is solidifying a geographic and political presence in the war-torn country, posing a dilemma for regional powers. Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds view the civil war as an opportunity to gain the kind of autonomy enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighbouring Iraq. Picture taken November 11, 2013. REUT](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/12/RTX15AJL.jpg/RTX15AJL.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=V3jxCcFY)
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![Mazloum Kobani, Syrian Democratic Forces' (SDF) commander in chief, talks as he announces the destruction of Islamic State's control of land in eastern Syria, at al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria March 23, 2019. - RC1F71152EF0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/12/RTS2EI3I.jpg/RTS2EI3I.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=v4HGCNh9)
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![ANKARA, TURKEY - NOVEMBER 12: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd R) and his wife Emine Erdogan (R) are seen before their departure to Washington from the Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey on November 12, 2019. (Photo by Ercin Top/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/GettyImages-1181874528.jpg/GettyImages-1181874528.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=3c9kxUbH)
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![This picture taken on August 16, 2019 shows a smoke plume rising following a reported air strike in Kfar Ruma in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. - Air strikes on August 16 by Syria's regime and its Russian ally killed 15 civilians in the area controlled by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib province, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The strikes came as regime forces battled HTS jihadists and allied rebels in the region, where fierce fighting](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/GettyImages-1162012738.jpg/GettyImages-1162012738.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=bzgakO8U)
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![Rached Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia's moderate Islamist Ennahda, speaks to supporters after the party gained most votes in Sunday's parliamentary election, according to an exit poll by Sigma Conseil broadcasted by state television, in Tunis, Tunisia October 6, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1AEA2A12F0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/RTX76H3T.jpg/RTX76H3T.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=BTGcVpKA)
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![Turkish and Russian military vehicles return following a joint patrol in northeast Syria, as they are pictured from near the Turkish border town of Kiziltepe in Mardin province, Turkey, November 1, 2019. REUTERS/Kemal Aslan - RC1A4E403CD0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/RTS2TSBQ1.jpg/RTS2TSBQ1.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=xR5DncQr)
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![Iraqi Kurds protest against the Turkish offensive against Syria during a demonstration outside the United Nations building in Erbil, Iraq October 12, 2019. Picture taken October 12, 2019. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC1C3DA85ED0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/RTS2R995.jpg/RTS2R995.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=xPNZOwfB)
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![U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen talks with Ahmad Kuzbari, co-chair for the Syrian Government, and other members ot their delegation after the first meeting of the new Syrian Constitutional Committee at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, October 30, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse - RC145F453450](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/10/RTS2TI1R.jpg/RTS2TI1R.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=6DfqtW_z)
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![Mazloum Kobani, SDF's commander in chief, shakes hands with the advisor for the US Department of State in northern Syria William Robak, at al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria March 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RC142AE67C90](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/10/RTS2EIB1.jpg/RTS2EIB1.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=A9jBOkkq)
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