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Perim: Who We Are
We are a specialist content firm, connecting the Middle East to the World
through engaging narratives about culture, environment, innovation, and tech.
Perim Media's clients include multinational companies, government entities,
startups, and non-profits. Our work includes includes inspirational creation
stories, path-laying executive speeches, conference design & proceedings,
 speaker identification & recruitment, bespoke magazines, creative social media
campaigns, coffee-table books, and more.

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Discover Our History

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Perim Media began in in 2011 as Perim Associates, LLC, a Middle East-focused law
& economics consultancy. For ten years, we helped some of the world's most
prestigious law firms understand the background to complex political and
cross-border disputes. While we enjoyed the work, we felt this wasn't enough. We
wanted to tell stories for bigger audiences, about issues that were important to
us. We expanded our content offering to include climate and health-related
events design.
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Perim had its first major events success conceiving, selling, and then building
one of the first major events focused on climate change in the Red Sea and East
Africa.  

The 2015 Environmental Risk & Opportunity (ERO) Summit, hosted by the President
of the Republic of Djibouti in partnership with Yale University and the World
Bank, attracted 60 Ministers of Environment and Health from 14 countries in the
region, Europe, and the Gulf, and was attended by several of the world’s most
distinguished climate scientists. US Secretary of State John Kerry called it a
"major step forward in environmental policy coordination." 

Since then, Perim has helped design content and recruited speakers for high
profile events and seminars all over the world. We have helped build lasting
relationships between investment funds, universities, medical centers, research
laboratories, and NGOs across thousands of miles.
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Our communications clients have included environmental tech startups, major
corporations, renewable energy companies, non-governmental organizations,
& government ministries.   

We have run research projects and helped write speeches for senior politicians
and executives -- including a then-future US President, Senators,
Parliamentarians, Heads of State, and CEOs of multinational companies.
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After a Covid hiatus, we reconvened in 2021 to focus on what we do best,
creating high-quality, persuasive content that encourages understanding and
innovation in the areas we care about most: environment, healthcare, and human
development.  
‍
"Perim" (Mayyun, in Arabic) is a small but strategic island near the lower
entrance to the Red Sea, between Arabia and Africa. We chose the name because it
represents the innate connectivity of the Middle East and Africa.  

Our logo is a stylized representation of Dracaena Cinnibari -- more commonly
known as the Dragon's Blood Tree, for its bright red sap, prized by ancient Near
Eastern civilizations for its medicinal properties -- and used more recently as
an ingredient in the reddish dye that gives Stradivarius violins their unique
warm color.

‍Cinnibari is endemic to the island of Socotra, which is located between Yemen
and Somalia. It is  threatened by climate change, which is altering the mists
the tree relies upon to propagate its seeds. This beautiful tree is an apt and
powerful symbol for sustainability, and the interdependence between humans and
nature.



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Creation Stories

We mine your assets and history to tell a story about value -- and values: Where
you come from, why you exist, the value you and your organization brings to the
world, its community, and its employees. Why people should pay attention to what
you’re doing.

Conference Design & Content


We create conference concepts and speaking pools and activities that attract
audiences, generate loyalty, and leave something valuable behind.

Publishing & Digital Media


We work with exceptionally talented partners in all media to translate your
story into multiple forms, from digital content, to documentaries, books that
jump off the table.

Legal Content


We help law firms and mediators understand the political, social and economic
background to Middle East and Africa related matters.  We have provided lead
expert testimony ourselves, and identified the top experts in many highly
specialized fields.

Speechwriting & Opinion


We work with senior executives to create narratives that inspire and direct
people to action -- mainly on climate, investment, and humanitarian issues, but
other issues as well.  We have written speeches and briefs for Presidents,
Ministers, CEOs, and NGO directors, and many others whose work (nearly) defies
description.

Speaker Recruitment


We use our global networks to match ideas and conferences with unique,
interesting, passionate speakers whose insights your audiences will remember for
years.

Film, Documentary & Podcast


We are creatives, who particularly love working on storyboards and treatments
for spoken media that inspire people to individual and collective action.

SVTGroup


SVT Group is a pioneering impact management advisory firm founded in 2001 that
supports clients to grow and tap previously unseen social and environmental
value. SVT's work has been used to manage the impact of $9.9Bn+ in assets for
global clients from Silicon Valley to Sudan. Our principals have also trained
over 7,000 individuals in-person in impact measurement and management skills.
‍
Best known for our work with Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis, we
team with clients to navigate the primordial ooze of social and environmental
reporting standards and build the plumbing they need for durable, strategic
insight that helps them drive where they want to go.

Learn more
Out Of Bounds


OUT OF BOUNDS is a branding and design agency that transforms brands with big
ideas. We put brand strategy and identity at the heart of everything we do,
creating clarity and impact where every design decision has a purpose and
function.

Experts in branding and digital design, we create impactful brand identities and
use creativity and technology to maximise the sustainability of our work to
reduce environmental impact.

The Internet causes around 4% of global emissions – more than the airline
industry – and it's growing by around 5% per year. We build low-code sites with
a sustainable digital design ethos, creating faster and less power-hungry sites
with all of the visual impact.

Learn more
Alazema Media


Alazema Media is a digital media company, translating narrative content to film,
film shorts, and high-traffic content across various social media platforms,
from TikTok to Meta and YouTube.  
Alazema was founded by Najat Rizk, International Emmy Awards Juror and two-time
winner of Harvard University’s Michael Porter All World Award for “pioneering
female film-maker and entrepreneur in the Middle East.”  Alazema’s Riyadh- and
Abu Dhabi-based team has spent more than 25 years creating award-winning
documentary films on Middle East history and culture.  In 2022 we launched the
first Middle East-content stock footage library with more than 45,000 unique and
rare short videoclips.
Alazema has worked closely with leading Pan-Arab broadcasters like LBCI to
repurpose, digitize, and monetize archived content, producing viral content with
more than 2 billion views. Most recently, Alazema has advised the Saudi Arabia’s
Ministry of Education requirements to build a national multi-media industry.
Alazema has worked closely with Perim principals over the past several years and
is excited to collaborate on inspiring, story-driven projects highlighting the
Middle East's rich natural and cultural heritage.

Learn more
Pendle Press


Established in 2021, Pendle Press is an independent UK publisher focused on
visual and written narratives that celebrate and preserve unique aspects of
British and Middle Eastern culture, in print and digital formats.  Pendle
manages artistic and literary events and presentations, including, most
recently, a UK touring exhibition of the work of exiled Libyan artist and
satirist, Hasan Dhaimish, and exhibitions featuring award-winning photographers
Nik Hartley and Angela Christofilou. These events were supported by the Arts
Council England.

Learn more
Kulturalis


Kulturalis is a new publishing company providing comprehensive, bespoke services
to the heritage industry worldwide. As our name indicates, we are committed to
supporting culture in the round, producing publications - print, digital,
braille, audio and more - to the highest standards and in all languages required
by our clients. We provide our services on a contractual basis at competitive
fees, as well as offering international promotion and distribution across the
global book trade. The Kulturalis team are highly specialised professionals with
many years' immersion in the sector. Our parent company, Verlag Müller und
Schindler (www.muellerundschindler.com), is a leading publisher of fine
facsimile editions with nearly 60 years of experience working with the world's
most famous cultural institutions. In previous roles the Kulturalis team have
worked on a number of prestigious projects across the GCC region, including
publications for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the National Museum of the Sultanate of
Oman in Muscat and the Atturaif UNESCO site in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Learn more


Our work has appeared in many of the most recognizable international
publications, including:

The StoryTelling Process
We are storytellers. How we get from raw material to a finished product varies
from client to client and situation to situation.
Discovery


We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand
internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.


We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements
that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.

Project Design


With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to
their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.

The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect
and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most
meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time.
That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the
central narrative.  




We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s
identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist,
we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable
demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding
partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target
demographics.




We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand
internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.


We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements
that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.

Impact Assessment


With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to
their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.

The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect
and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most
meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time.
That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the
central narrative.  




We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s
identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist,
we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable
demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding
partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target
demographics.




We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand
internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.


We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements
that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.

Translation to Effective Media


With powerful narratives in place, we help clients translate their stories to
their most effective media -- whether print, social, documentary, podcast, etc.

The most effective storytelling is backed up by compelling evidence. We collect
and analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify clients’ most
meaningful environmental and social impact, and areas of improvement over time.
That information supports ESG-related reporting, and is integrated back into the
central narrative.  




We look for discrete projects or achievements that encapsulate an organization’s
identity, values, and impact. If suitable ("accessible") projects do not exist,
we help create them. We work with the client to define creative and achievable
demonstrations of technology, strategy, etc; we bring in value-adding
partnerships, and coordinate execution to attract notice from target
demographics.




We often start with 360-degree interviews with stakeholders to understand
internal and external perceptions of the organization’s vision and purpose.


We then sift through the organization’s past and present for narrative elements
that are potentially undervalued -- or not used at all.



The StoryTelling Process
We are storytellers. How we get from raw material to a finished product varies
from client to client and situation to situation.

Discovery



We typically start with 360-degree interviews of senior officers, employees, and
external stakeholders to get a sense of the organization’s vision and purpose,
and how it is seen by clients and the public. We sift through the organization’s
past and present for undervalued narrative elements. We have found that
high-functioning organizations are often so focused on the present, they
discount both past accomplishments and the broader environment in which they
work.

Project Design



Self-contained projects and public events are valuable tools with which to
amplify – and at times, simplify – story arcs.  We look for projects (completed
or in-progress) that encapsulate an organization’s identity, values, and impact.
 If such “representative” projects do not exist, we look for ways to create
them, and then weave them into the story. These are not “dummy projects,” but
active demonstrations of broader current or potential impact.

Impact Assessment



We work with our partners to provide quantitative and qualitative measures like
polling, focus groups, indices, that highlight clients’ real environmental and
social impact – and what drives it. This process yields hard metrics that can be
integrated into a variety of existing environmental and social reporting
frameworks.

Translation to Effective Media



Once we have established a candidate story arc, signposts and supporting
evidence, we help the client translate the story to its most effective media,
whether that’s social, documentary shorts, traditional print, exhibitions,
films, speeches, podcasts, etc.

portfolio
Our work has been published in –

Storytelling
Speechwriting
Social Media
Copywriting
Film Treatments

Grant Proposals
Corporate and Executive Profiles
Creation Narratives
Conference Content
Expert Testimony
In-house Magazines
Brochures
Books
Copywriting


We have written speeches for Presidents, Ministers, and CEOs.

We have created treatments and scripts for documentary films and graphic novels.

We have created long-term social media campaigns.

We have created advertising, fundraising promotion campaigns for dozens of
social ventures.

We have collectively hundreds of features and Op-Eds for the world’s top print
and on line magazines.

We are currently working, with Kulturalis, on a series of graphics-heavy ‘how
to’ books on emerging humanitarian technologies, targeted at fund managers, and
journalists.

‍

Conference Design


In 2014 we pitched an idea for a conference that addressed future climate
adaptation needs of the Red Sea and East Africa. We developed the concept and
speaker list and pitched it to hosts, partners and sponsors. In 2015 the event
was hosted by the President of Djibouti, with Yale University Climate and Energy
Institute, the World Bank and the Djibouti Center for Education and Research
(CERD) as content partners.  The Summit drew 60 ministers of Energy and
Agriculture from 14 countries, and was considered at the time a significant
contribution to climate policy awareness in East Africa and the Red Sea.  Some
of this work was informed by principals’ participation in a 2011 Gulf Counter
Piracy conference, where they helped identify panel topics, recruit high-profile
and deep-expert speakers, and oversee the production of Conference Proceedings,
which were published in an edited volume.

Organizational Narratives


Perim principals helped one Middle East conglomerate (re)-tell an
under-recognized aspect of its development contribution to Africa.  Partly for
cultural and political reasons, the company was hesitant to ‘flag’ the novelty
of its approach to mixing business and economic development.  We helped re-tell
the story in a politically and culturally appropriate way, by placing it within
the context of the home country’s decades-long interactions with Africa (a
‘National’ theme), as well as the company’s ability to use its native
intelligence to recognize and act on a fleeting opportunity with significant
commercial and geopolitical consequences.  We then quantified / estimated the
direct and indirect development impact of the company’s work over the previous
10 years. We shaped the story into a 100-page, illustrated book, which was used
to inform communications in other media, and a variety of company legal claims.
 This effort has informed much of Perim’s approach to integrating storytelling
and research ever since.

In-house Publications


In 2016 Perim launched AR3 Magazine (Africa Risk, Resilience and
Reconstruction), featuring detailed profiles of environmental tech
organizations, sustainable or environment-focused regional businesses, and
interviews with leaders in environmental science, culture, tech, law, and
conservation. The magazine, which ran for two years, became a model for our
approach to the design, content and publication of in-house magazines,
coffee-table books, and themed social media campaigns. We have partnered with
Kulturalis, publisher of high-end, illustrated art books to produce a new
storytelling channel focused on regional (Middle East/ Africa) environment and
culture.

Project Design


Perim (operating as Avicenna Group) arrived in Benghazi, Libya in July 2011 to
use its connections in academic and medical technology to help develop Libya’s
healthcare system during a period of acute crisis.  Over the course of the
following three years, we worked with the University of California San Francisco
(UCSF), the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) to develop a
strategy focused on emergency medicine, and recruited Harvard teaching hospitals
to be implementation partners.  The result was a $20m MOU which was to be signed
the day following the 2012 attack on the US mission in Benghazi.  Elements of
the program continued over the following years.  Perim worked in parallel with
EyePACS on delivering diagnostic training for diabetic retinopathy and
collecting epidemiological data on diabetes and diabetic retinopathy in Libya,
Turkey, and Djibouti.

Legal Support and Expert-Search


Several of Perim’s principals have served as testifying experts and advisors on
international legal matters.  Our areas of expertise relate to specific aspects
of the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the Middle East and Africa.
 Through our networks we source other hard-to-find experts and resources, all
providing language support (translation/interpretation). We have also worked pro
bono to support asylum cases.


MEET THE TEAM

We are cutting-edge creatives

Dr. Ethan D. Chorin

Founder & Director

Sherif Dhaimish

Director, Creative

Aya Burweila

Director, Design & Partnerships

Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn

Director, Government Affairs

Dr. Cole Bunzel

Sr. Associate, Legal Practice

Eric Ellman

Director, Science & Climate Media

Michael Brill, Ph.D. Cand.

Director, Middle East Research

Dr. Aaron Rock-Singer

Director, Legal Affairs

Col. Wolfgang Pusztai

Director, Geopolitical Risk & Strategy

Omar A. Benhalim

Director, Legal + Business Logistics

Partners


Xceler, a fusing of “excellence” and “speed”, is a boutique engineering &
finance consulting firm.




Made up of PhD and MBA graduates from the best schools in the US, Xceler
combines theoretical rigor and extensive training in experimental design, with
experience working at some of the most ground-breaking firms in Tech.




Our cross-disciplinary and teams approach helps us solve complex technical
problems in a number of fields including AI, Climate Tech, Health Science,
Robotics, Materials Science and Finance.  




We work closely with leadership and R&D arms of startups, venture funds, and
Fortune 500 companies to evaluate the commercial viability of new technologies
and startups.  We tress-test industrial applications. We overcome complex design
and sustainability challenges -- and optimize production and organizational
processes.




Xceler Consulting is your gateway to engineering innovation. We transform
complexity into clarity and sustainability.



Learn more

SVT Group is a pioneering impact management advisory firm founded in 2001 to
support clients' growth and tap hidden social and environmental value. SVT's
work has been used to manage the impact of $9.9Bn+ in assets, globally.

‍

SVT is Best known for its work in Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis.
 We help our clients navigate the complex and often contradictory world of
social and environmental reporting standards, and select (or build) a data
collection and reporting framework that produces the data and strategic insight
required to keep them true to their values and their business objectives. Our
principals have trained over 7,000 individuals in impact measurement and
management.

Learn more

Kulturalis is a new publishing company providing comprehensive, bespoke services
to the heritage industry worldwide. As our name indicates, we are committed to
supporting culture in the round, producing publications - print, digital,
braille, audio and more - to the highest standards and in all languages required
by our clients. We provide our services on a contractual basis at competitive
fees, as well as offering international promotion and distribution across the
global book trade. The Kulturalis team are highly specialised professionals with
many years' immersion in the sector.

‍

Our parent company, Verlag Müller und Schindler (www.muellerundschindler.com),
is a leading publisher of fine facsimile editions with nearly 60 years of
experience working with the world's most famous cultural institutions. In
previous roles the Kulturalis team have worked on a number of prestigious
projects across the GCC region, including publications for the Louvre Abu Dhabi,
the National Museum of the Sultanate of Oman in Muscat and the Atturaif UNESCO
site in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Learn more

OUT OF BOUNDS is a branding and design agency that transforms brands with big
ideas. We put brand strategy and identity at the heart of everything we do,
creating clarity and impact where every design decision has a purpose and
function.

‍

Experts in branding and digital design, OUT OF BOUNDS create impactful brand
identities and use creativity and technology to maximise the sustainability of
our work to reduce environmental impact.

‍

The Internet causes around 4% of global emissions – more than the airline
industry – and it's growing by around 5% per year. We build low-code sites with
a sustainable digital design ethos, creating faster and less power-hungry sites
with all of the visual impact.

Learn more

Alazema Media is a digital media company, translating narrative content to film,
film shorts, and high-traffic content across various social media platforms,
from TikTok to Meta and YouTube.  

‍

Alazema was founded by Najat Rizk, International Emmy Awards Juror and two-time
winner of Harvard University’s Michael Porter All World Award for “pioneering
female film-maker and entrepreneur in the Middle East.”  Alazema’s Riyadh- and
Abu Dhabi-based team has spent more than 25 years creating award-winning
documentary films on Middle East history and culture.  In 2022 we launched the
first Middle East-content stock footage library with more than 45,000 unique and
rare short videoclips.

‍

Alazema has worked closely with leading Pan-Arab broadcasters like LBCI to
repurpose, digitize, and monetize archived content, producing viral content with
more than 2 billion views. Most recently, Alazema has advised the Saudi Arabia’s
Ministry of Education requirements to build a national multi-media industry.
Alazema has worked closely with Perim principals over the past several years and
is excited to collaborate on inspiring, story-driven projects highlighting the
Middle East's rich natural and cultural heritage.

Learn more

Established in 2021, Pendle Press is an independent UK publisher focused on
visual and written narratives that celebrate and preserve unique aspects of
British and Middle Eastern culture, in print and digital formats.  Pendle
manages artistic and literary events and presentations, including, most
recently, a UK touring exhibition of the work of exiled Libyan artist and
satirist, Hasan Dhaimish, and exhibitions featuring award-winning photographers
Nik Hartley and Angela Christofilou. These events were supported by the Arts
Council England.

Learn more
SVTGroup


SVT Group is a pioneering impact management advisory firm founded in 2001 that
supports clients to grow and tap previously unseen social and environmental
value. SVT's work has been used to manage the impact of $9.9Bn+ in assets for
global clients from Silicon Valley to Sudan. Our principals have also trained
over 7,000 individuals in-person in impact measurement and management skills.
‍
Best known for our work with Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis, we
team with clients to navigate the primordial ooze of social and environmental
reporting standards and build the plumbing they need for durable, strategic
insight that helps them drive where they want to go.

Learn more
Out Of Bounds


OUT OF BOUNDS is a branding and design agency that transforms brands with big
ideas. We put brand strategy and identity at the heart of everything we do,
creating clarity and impact where every design decision has a purpose and
function.

Experts in branding and digital design, we create impactful brand identities and
use creativity and technology to maximise the sustainability of our work to
reduce environmental impact.

The Internet causes around 4% of global emissions – more than the airline
industry – and it's growing by around 5% per year. We build low-code sites with
a sustainable digital design ethos, creating faster and less power-hungry sites
with all of the visual impact.

Learn more
Alazema Media


Alazema Media is a digital media company, translating narrative content to film,
film shorts, and high-traffic content across various social media platforms,
from TikTok to Meta and YouTube.  
Alazema was founded by Najat Rizk, International Emmy Awards Juror and two-time
winner of Harvard University’s Michael Porter All World Award for “pioneering
female film-maker and entrepreneur in the Middle East.”  Alazema’s Riyadh- and
Abu Dhabi-based team has spent more than 25 years creating award-winning
documentary films on Middle East history and culture.  In 2022 we launched the
first Middle East-content stock footage library with more than 45,000 unique and
rare short videoclips.
Alazema has worked closely with leading Pan-Arab broadcasters like LBCI to
repurpose, digitize, and monetize archived content, producing viral content with
more than 2 billion views. Most recently, Alazema has advised the Saudi Arabia’s
Ministry of Education requirements to build a national multi-media industry.
Alazema has worked closely with Perim principals over the past several years and
is excited to collaborate on inspiring, story-driven projects highlighting the
Middle East's rich natural and cultural heritage.

Learn more
Pendle Press


Established in 2021, Pendle Press is an independent UK publisher focused on
visual and written narratives that celebrate and preserve unique aspects of
British and Middle Eastern culture, in print and digital formats.  Pendle
manages artistic and literary events and presentations, including, most
recently, a UK touring exhibition of the work of exiled Libyan artist and
satirist, Hasan Dhaimish, and exhibitions featuring award-winning photographers
Nik Hartley and Angela Christofilou. These events were supported by the Arts
Council England.

Learn more
Kulturalis


Kulturalis is a new publishing company providing comprehensive, bespoke services
to the heritage industry worldwide. As our name indicates, we are committed to
supporting culture in the round, producing publications - print, digital,
braille, audio and more - to the highest standards and in all languages required
by our clients. We provide our services on a contractual basis at competitive
fees, as well as offering international promotion and distribution across the
global book trade. The Kulturalis team are highly specialised professionals with
many years' immersion in the sector. Our parent company, Verlag Müller und
Schindler (www.muellerundschindler.com), is a leading publisher of fine
facsimile editions with nearly 60 years of experience working with the world's
most famous cultural institutions. In previous roles the Kulturalis team have
worked on a number of prestigious projects across the GCC region, including
publications for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the National Museum of the Sultanate of
Oman in Muscat and the Atturaif UNESCO site in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Learn more



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Ethan has more than 25 years’ experience working across the Middle East and
Africa, as a senior communications professional and policy advisor, a US
diplomat, and a communications and government affairs executive with Shell Oil,
Dubai Ports World, BRG and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chorin is the
author of four books, including Benghazi!: A New History of the Fiasco that
Pushed America and its World to the Brink (Hachette, 2022), Exit the Colonel
(PublicAffairs, 2012), and Translating Libya: In Search of the Libyan Short
Story (Darf, 2015). Chorin has published more than 70 articles and Op-Eds for
the New York Times, The Financial Times, Salon, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek,
Prospect and Foreign Policy, and academic journals, and has been a regular
contributor to Forbes and BBC Radio 4.  He has been a Fulbright (Jordan) and
Fulbright-Hays (Yemen) Fellow, a Social Venture Fellow at the Yale School of
Management (SOM) and Jean Monnet Fellow at l’X. Chorin holds a PhD in
Agriculture & Resource Economics from UC Berkeley, an MA in International Policy
from Stanford University, and a BA in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
from Yale University. He speaks Arabic, French, Farsi, and basic Japanese.

He posts to Substack, X and Instagram @ethanchorin.  

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Sherif Dhaimish

Director, Creative

Sherif is a professional editor, arts curator and the founder Pendle Press, a
cultural preservation project established in 2021. He collaborates with
publishers including CentreCentre, Scala, Kulturalis, Medina, and Darf
Publishers, for which he edited and helped launch a range of publications. He
has directed arts projects including a museum exhibition honoring the work of
his father, well known Libyan satirist Hasan Dhaimish “Al Satoor” and a
forthcoming multimedia production (2024) about the late Lancastrian filmmaker,
Sam Hanna, funded by Lottery Heritage Fund. He holds a BA in Communication
Studies from the University of Leeds and an MA in Critical Theory from King's
College London.

Follow him on Instagram @sherif_dhaimish.

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Aya Burweila

Director, Design & Partnerships

Originally from Benghazi, Libya, Aya is an Athens-based TV commentator, author,
business consultant, currently serving as Ambassador and Special Envoy of the
European Public Law Organization to Libya and North Africa.  Ms. Burweila is
frequently consulted for her views on Middle East politics, security, and
refugee policy.  In 2018 she founded Code on the Road, a non-profit providing
business and coding skills to young women and girls across the Mediterranean and
the Middle East.  COR was a winner of the Harvard Arab Alumni Association’s
‘Arabi Impact Initiative in 2019, and a recipient of a grant from the U.S. State
Department’s Innovation Fund.  She is the author of the European
Union-commissioned Greece National Report on Migrants and Entrepreneurship
(2018). Burweila is an alumna of the US State Department’s prestigious
International Visitor’s Leadership Program (IVLP) and was an adviser to the Jean
Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University of Athens. She holds a MA
from La Verne University (Athens), and a BA from the University of Indianapolis
(Athens) in International Relations. She speaks Arabic, English and Greek.



Ambassador Lange Schermerhorn

Director, Government Affairs

Lange Schermerhorn was sworn in as Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti on
December 11, 1997 and presented her credentials on January 25, 1998. She joined
the Foreign Service in 1966, and is a member of the Senior Foreign Service. She
has served in a variety of economic, political, trade promotion, management, and
staff positions in Washington, Southeast Asia, the Near East and South Asia, and
Europe.

From 1993 to 1997, Ambassador Schermerhorn served as Deputy Chief of Mission at
the U.S. Embassy in Brussels. Prior to that assignment, she was the Deputy
Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments. From 1988-1990,
she served in the office of Special Trade Activities, Bureau of Economic
Affairs, and was Counselor for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Brussels
from 1985 to 1988.

Ambassador Schermerhorn's other assignments include Deputy Director, Office of
North African Affairs (1982-1985); Assistant Commercial Attache in London
(1978-1981); and Economic Officer in Tehran (1974-1977). From 1971 to 1973, she
was assigned to the Department of State's Secretariat, first in the Operations
Center and subsequently as a staff officer on the Secretariat staff. Earlier
overseas assignments include Saigon from 1969 to 1970 and Colombo from 1967 to
1968.

Ambassador Schermerhorn received her bachelor's degree in history and
international relations from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley,
Massachusetts. She is a 1982 graduate of the National War College, National
Defense University in Fort McNair, Washington; and she obtained a certificate in
Economics from the Foreign Service Institute in 1974.

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Dr. Cole Bunzel

Sr. Associate, Legal Practice

Cole M. Bunzel is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A
historian and scholar of the modern Middle East, he specializes in the history
and contemporary affairs of the Arabian Peninsula, Islamic theology and law, and
modern Islamic radicalism. Bunzel earned both his B.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern
Studies from Princeton University, as well as an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies. He has been a fellow at Yale Law
School’s Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization
and is the editor of the website www.jihadica.com.



Eric Ellman

Director, Science & Climate Media

For more than 25 years, Ellman has helped communities in the US, Mexico, the UK,
and East Africa communicate their environmental needs, while creating
innovative, multi-party solutions to those needs. He helped hundreds of Rio
Grande residents build first-time water and sewer infrastructure, developed a
program to treat and reuse effluent for alternative crops; supported a
prison-based retraining program in Sonora, Mexico, and organized binational
canoe and kayak races on the Rio Grande. In 2021, he launched a U.S. State
Department-funded initiative to use London’s canals and canal boats as a venue
for entertainers to build awareness of climate change. His work has been covered
in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and on NPR. As Communications
Director for the Yale University Climate and Energy Institute (2013-2016) he
managed press conferences, community outreach, domestic and international
partnerships, edited Center publications, and helped assemble Yale’s climate
delegation to the 2015 Perim-ERO Summit in Djibouti.  Eric speaks English and
Spanish.



Michael Brill, Ph.D. Cand.

Director, Middle East Research

Michael Brill is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at
Princeton University, and a fellow at the Princeton Institute for International
and Regional Studies and the Princeton Center for Culture, Society and Religion.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, he was a fellow with the Cold War Archives
Research Institute at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. Brill’s research
has focused on Iraq between 1968 and 2003. His writing has appeared in Foreign
Affairs, The Middle East Journal, War on the Rocks, International Journal of
Middle East Studies, Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Caravan
Notebook. He holds an M.A. in Arab Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab
Studies at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Affairs, and a B.A. in History and
Political Science from Westfield State University. He speaks Arabic.



Dr. Aaron Rock-Singer

Director, Legal Affairs

Dr. Rock-Singer is a Middle East historian and expert on Islamic law, Islamism
and Arabic media. He is the coordinator for a team of five Perim testifying
experts that has worked on matters related to sovereignty, cross border
disputes, Islamic law, Middle East-related commercial law, customary law, public
defense, immigration and asylum, terrorism, and force majeure &
nationalization-related damages.

He is the author of two books: Practicing Islam: Print Media and Islamic Revival
(Cambridge, 2019) and In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the
20th-Century Middle East (University of California Press, 2022) as well as
several academic articles.

Aaron holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.Phil. from St. Anthony’s
College, Oxford, and B.A from the University of Pennsylvania. Aaron has taught
at Princeton, Cornell and the University of Wisconsin -Madison and is currently
a Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Middle East
Initiative. Aaron has worked as an advisor to law firms on Middle East-related
cases. He speaks Arabic and Hebrew, and reads Turkish.

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Col. Wolfgang Pusztai

Director, Geopolitical Risk & Strategy

Col Pusztai is a regional Middle East/ Africa strategy and security analyst. He
has held senior positions within the Austrian Ministry of Defense-General Staff
and been part of Austrian delegations to the European Union and NATO.  From
2007-2012, Pusztai was Austria's Defense Attaché to Italy, Greece, Tunisia, and
Libya (as well as liaison officer to the Italian Joint Operations Headquarters)
in which capacity he managed aspects of Austria’s response to the Arab Spring,
including the evacuation of 100s of Austrian and EU citizens from Libya at the
beginning of the 2011 Revolution. He has advised senior politicians,
governments, multinational institutions, and corporations, and lectured and
written extensively about military strategy North Africa, Islamic radicalism,
and migration. Pusztai is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Council
on U.S.-Libya Relations (NCUSLR) and Senior Advisor at the Austrian Institute
for European and Security Policy (AIES). He holds a MA in Political Science from
the University of Vienna and a MS in National Security Strategy from the
prestigious National War College in Washington D.C.



Omar A. Benhalim

Director, Legal + Business Logistics

Benhalim has managed large-scale procurement and facilities management for
medical research facilities, data centers and network operations centers. He
started his career in the 1970s as principal in the Arab Trading and Contracting
Company (ATCC), the exclusive Libya Distributor for many global brands such as
Boeing, General Motors, Honda, General Electric and Toshiba. He successfully
managed many major infrastructure and supply projects, including the total
fit-out of 32 47-bed hospitals, the installation of water and sewer treatment
plants in Tripoli and Misurata, and upgrades to the Libya national electrical
power grid. Omar was Co-Founder of Avicenna. Benhalim is fluent in Arabic and
English with a working knowledge of Italian.