Robin Yassin-Kassab is a noted British Syrian writer and journalist. He has been commenting on the Syrian Revolution and war since 2011 with by-lines in The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Newsweek, among others, and appearances on the BBC, Channel 4 and Al Jazeera. He also writes for the quarterly journal, Critical Muslim, and is the author, with Leila al-Shami, of the critically acclaimed Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (shortlisted for the Folio Prize) and a novel, The Road from Damascus. Yassin-Kassab is currently the English editor of the Prisons Museum, an NGO which documents and investigates prisons run by both ISIS and the Assad regime. He lives in Scotland.