Jaron Sutton is an Arabic language scholar and writer with an interest in Australian politics and media, climate change, the Arab world, and history. He recently returned to Australia from Egypt where he was an Arabic language fellow at the American University in Cairo. He has worked for much of his career in the higher education sector in Victoria. He holds a Master of International Relations from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from La Trobe University. He has lived in both Syria and Egypt.