President el-Sisi and Secretary of State John Kerry meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo last July. (Photo from Flickr via US Dept of State)

Alex is a cofounder and editor of The Seattle Globalist. He's a visual journalist whose work has been published by PBS, The Seattle Times, FRONTLINE/World and the Seattle Weekly.  Alex teaches journalism in the University of Washington's Department of Communication and recently directed the documentary film Barzan.