Kaitlyn Hashem is the Editor at the Stimson Center. Before joining the Stimson Center, she was awarded the Lynton Fellowship in Book Writing from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism in recognition of her work on a narrative history of the Arabic language in the United States. The book, titled “A Broken Plural: The Story of America’s Two-Century Encounter with the Arabic Language,” is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. 

She previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as the assistant editor of Sada Journal, a bilingual Arabic-English publication focused on politics, economics, and society in the Middle East and North Africa. She graduated from Georgetown University with a BA in Government and MA in Conflict Resolution, and she holds an MS in Journalism with honors from Columbia University.