Dominique Soguel is an Istanbul-based journalist covering the Middle East with a special focus on Syria. She worked for three years in the region for Agence France-Presse, covering the Libyan conflict and serving as special correspondent in Tripoli in 2012. Primarily a writer and occasional photographer, she branched out to video in 2013 working at AFPTV’s Middle East headquarters in Nicosia. Soguel also worked for Women’s eNews, coordinating Middle East coverage, managing its Arabic website and filing stories from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia as well as the Arab world.