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Lisa Daftari is an award-winning investigative journalist, political analyst and commentator frequently appearing on Fox News, CBS, NBC, Al Jazeera, Voice of America and SiriusXM focusing on topics such as the Middle East and North Africa, terrorism, national security, ISIS on the web, global Christian persecution, human rights, cyber security and more. Lisa also serves as director and founding editor of The Foreign Desk, a news platform covering stories and analysis from around the globe with an emphasis on their impact on U.S. foreign policy. She publishes “Lisa’s Top Ten,” a popular daily email briefing with the day’s most vital foreign affairs stories, reaching 250,000 monthly subscribers. Her exclusives appear on The Drudge Report, Fox News, The Telegraph, Newsweek, CNN, The Huffington Post and The Washington Post. She is regularly called upon to give briefings and expert testimony to government and private entities and has worked for a number of think tanks in Washington, DC.