Contributors
Geoffrey Gresh
MALD 2007, is former editor-in-chief of al-Nakhlah. He is also a former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Turkey and Presidential Fellow at the American University in Cairo. Currently, he is a doctoral student in international relations at the Fletcher School with concentrations in Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, International Security Studies, and Maritime Studies.
Matan Chorev
Fletcher MALD ’07, is currently a Researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
A. Nicholas Gossen
Fletcher MALD 2007, is a second-year student concentrating in International Business Relations and Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilizations. He spent the summer of 2007 working for Fletcher's SWAIC program in Baku with Azerbaijan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Casey Johnson
Fletcher MALD 2008, has worked as freelance reporter/photographer in Afghanistan, and as a correspondent for the United Nation’s news and analysis network, IRIN News, in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.
Rebecca Hekman
Assistant Editor with al-Nakhlah. A Fletcher MALD 2010, UCLA Law School JD 2010, Rebecca is focusing her research on judicial training in post-conflict justice system reconstruction, with Afghanistan as a case study. Her concentrations at Fletcher are Law and Development and Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization.
Michael Mylrea
Michael Mylrea is a managing editor of al-Nakhlah at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, concentrating his studies in Security, Southwest Asia and Islamic civilization. At Fletcher, Michael is researching energy security, and how advances in information technology are changing the Arab world. Michael has had substantial experience in business and journalism in the Middle East and Africa. He has appeared on television and radio, and is the author of 50+ publications in various newspapers, magazines and journals.
Editors
Editor-in-Chief
Ethan Corbin, Fletcher Ph.D. candidate, completed his MALD in May 2007. Ethan’s fields of study at the Fletcher School are International Security Studies and Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization. Prior to coming to Fletcher, Ethan received an MA in Middle Eastern History at Paris IV- La Sorbonne in 2005. Ethan received his AB from Bowdoin College.
Managing Editors
Farah Bushashia, Fletcher MALD 2008, is a first-year student concentrating on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization, and the United States, with a particular interest in North Africa and Libya.
Michael Mylrea, Michael Mylrea is a managing editor of al-Nakhlah at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, concentrating his studies in Security, Southwest Asia and Islamic civilization. At Fletcher, Michael is researching energy security, and how advances in information technology are changing the Arab world. Michael has had substantial experience in business and journalism in the Middle East and Africa. He has appeared on television and radio, and is the author of 50+ publications in various newspapers, magazines and journals.
Assistant Editors
Rebeca S. Hekman, Fletcher MALD 2010, UCLA Law School JD 2010, is in the second year of a joint degree program concentrating in Law and Development and Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization. In the summer of 2007, she worked with judicial training programs in Afghanistan and is planning a MALD thesis on judicial training in post-conflict settings.
Nicholas Lesher, Fletcher MALD 2009, is a first-year student concentrating in SW Asia & Islamic Civilization and International Negotiation & Conflict Resolution. Prior to Fletcher, Nicholas worked as a research fellow assigned to the Human Capital working group for the Project on National Security Reform.
Hasham Mehmood, Fletcher MALD 2009, is pursuing Public International Law and Southwest Asia & Islamic Civilizations as fields of study. Hasham completed his Bachelors in Finance at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania, after which he joined JPMorgan in New York in their investment banking division. Prior to joining Fletcher, Hasham worked for International Finance Corporation in Washington DC.
