Kaylan Geiger is an M.A. candidate in the Middle East Studies program at The George Washington University. She was born in New Orleans, LA and obtained a B.A. in International Studies from the University of New Orleans. She has studied abroad at the American University in Cairo, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Birzeit University in the West Bank. Between 2007 and 2012, she traveled to Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories several times in order to study Arabic and gain an accurate understanding of the region. The focus of her studies has primarily been on the dissemination of information within society, particularly as the process relates to journalism.
Her M.A. capstone, co-written with Fraus Masri, focused on the status of press freedom in post-Mubarak Egypt and under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. She has interned for the New Orleans Citizen Diplomacy Council and the World Affairs Institute, and worked at the Palestinian American Research Center from 2012-2013, which promotes doctoral and post-doctoral research in the field of Palestinian Studies. She currently works for Tadween Publishing, a subsidiary of the Arab Studies Institute at George Mason University, as a copy-editor and blog writer. Kaylan plans to move to Cairo in the next few months in order to begin her career as a freelance journalist.
