Pieter Stockmans is a Belgian journalist. He has been travelling North Africa and the Middle-East for the last ten years, specializing in in-depth reports on the impact of socio-economic, political and religious developments on the lives of ordinary people. He covers the Syrian conflict, focusing on Hezbollah, the Kurds and the jihadists; the Syrian refugee crisis, focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and European policies; migration in the Mediterranean Sea; disadvantaged regions in Tunisia and Egypt; and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.