Lisa Daftari is an award-winning investigative journalist focusing on foreign affairs with expertise in the Middle East and counterterrorism. She is a political analyst appearing regularly on Fox News, CBS, NBC, PBS, and has been featured in The Washington Post, ABC, and NPR. Lisa serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Foreign Desk, a foreign affairs newswire covering stories from around the globe with an emphasis on their impact on U.S. foreign policy. Lisas areas of expertise and coverage include the Middle East and North Africa, terrorism, national security, the Arab Spring, Irans Green Revolution, global Christian persecution, human rights and cyber security. She frequently is called upon to give briefs and expert testimony for government and private entities and has worked for a number of think tanks in Washington, where she has written exclusive reports for the Pentagon and other government groups.