Omer Aziz

Omer Aziz is a writer and J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. He is a Student Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. He is currently at work on a novel. Omer has traveled extensively and written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The New Republic, Salon, The Diplomat, and Al Jazeera, among others. During the summer of 2015, he worked at the Office of the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria. Omer received his MPhil in International Relations with Distinction from Cambridge University (Clare Hall) where he was a Commonwealth Scholar and the inaugural Pitt Scholar. He graduated from Queens University in Canada with a BA in Politics and studied at Harvard and Sciences Po Paris along the way.