Rania Abouzeid is a Beirut-based journalist and author of No Turning Back: Life, Loss, And Hope in Wartime Syria. She has covered the Middle East and South Asia for well over 15 years, and is the recipient of numerous prizes for international journalism, including the Michael Kelly Award and the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. A print and television journalist, she has been published in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, National Geographic, and other outlets, and has received several fellowships, including from the European Council on Foreign Relations, and New America.