Sarra Hussien

Sarra Hussien

Sarra Hussien is a junior at the University of Southern California majoring in Political Science and Psychology. On campus, Sarra is a member of Delta Phi Epsilon, serves as the Assistant Director of External Relations and Under-Secretary-General of Programming for USC’s Model United Nations team, Assistant Director of External Finance for Moot Court, Director of Design for Glimpse from the Globe, an undergraduate researcher for the Near Crisis Project, Associate Editor for Southern California International Review, and a member of the Thematic Option Honors Program. She is specifically interested in democracy, global conflict, and human rights as it pertains to the Middle East and Africa. When she is not writing, she spends time with friends, naps at the beach, and checks things off her LA bucket list.

Tunisia’s Reversion to Autocracy

The Arab Spring, a series of anti-government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in the early 2010s, aimed to address long-standing grievances against the region’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. While the string of revolutions resulted in modest political, ...

The Human Cost of War: The Syrian Refugee Crisis

When I was two, my dad took me to an Iraq war protest in Dallas.  Proudly dressed in a white kufi with his long beard, a “war kills children” sign hanging from his neck and me sitting on his shoulders, ...

The Education Crisis in Yemen

Yemen’s current crisis remains one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world — the result of widespread hunger, disease and ongoing civil war. More than 24 million individuals (close to 80% of the total population) are in dire need ...