Maya is the Reuters bureau chief for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. She previously covered the Middle East for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, writing about climate change, tech, socioeconomic developments and other trends shaping our region. She was a reporter for Agence-France Presse for six years, including in Baghdad and Beirut, and has reported as a freelancer out of Beirut, Istanbul, and the Kurdish region of Iraq.

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