Staff

Nizar al-Rifai

Nizar is a designer, the operations lead, and the liaison for Ukraine operations at OffBeat Research. He is an independent conflict researcher and open-source researcher with a focus on graphical and visual tools for data analysis. His work has covered conflicts in Lebanon, Syria, and now Ukraine, where he currently lives.

Noor Nahas

Noor is a co-founder, editor, and researcher at OffBeat Research. He is a researcher focused on open-source investigation, social media, and finding new ways of tracking global changes in the world using basic open-source tools. Noor has previously written for Bellingcat, trained teams and professionals on using OSINT, and worked with researchers and journalists to track and investigate major leads around the world.