Rami Jarrah
رامي جراح
Also known as: Alexander Page
Biography
Rami Jarrah is a Syrian-British journalist and activist who was one of the most prominent citizen journalists covering the Syrian uprising in its earliest days. He operated under the pseudonym 'Alexander Page' while living in Syria in 2011, reporting via Twitter, Skype, and phone calls to international media from inside Syria — one of the few English-language voices reporting directly from the country when international journalists were banned. After being identified and threatened, he fled Syria and continued reporting from outside, eventually founding ANA Press, an organization training Syrian citizen journalists. His work was pivotal in getting information out of Syria to the international media during the blackout period of 2011–2012.