Sam Dagher is an American-Lebanese journalist and a nonresident fellow at the Middle East Institute. As the only foreigner openly reporting from Damascus for a major Western media outlet in 2012-2014, he was briefly detained in an underground regime prison and later expelled from the country. His book Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria was picked as one of the best of 2019 by multiple outlets.
