Meet The Team

The Silah Report team consists of researchers, linguists, and collectors from across the world. Putting together our articles is a group effort involving fieldwork, corroboration of sources, translation, searching out reference material, and following up on new leads. We pride ourselves on sharing authoritative work that sheds light on the nuances of small arms development, use and proliferation across the MENA region and beyond.

If you are interested in joining the team, please contact us at info@silahreport.com

Miles Vining

Khan-in-Chief

Miles founded Silah Report in 2017 with Hracha Hayrapet due to an observed knowledge gap in the small arms research field when it came to understanding numerous aspects of small arms and light weapons in the MENA and Central Asian regions of the world. He can be reached at miles@silahreport.com.

Hrachya Hayrapetyan

Co-Founder

Hrachya is an infantry veteran from Armenia, who uses his fluency in Russian to research historical and contemporary small arms.

Matthew Moss

Chief Editor

Matthew is a British historian, author and editor. He studies small arms history and runs www.historicalfirearms.info & www.armourersbench.com.
moss@silahreport.com

Adham S

Podcast Host

Adham is an Egyptian researcher and analyst interested in the field of military history, weapons arms, and equipment. He also prepares the Silah Report podcast.

Abdullah K

Senior Writer

Abdullah K. (Khyber Abdullah) is a British Dardistani who is an arms researcher specializing in the arms of the Pak-Afghan ‘Khyber’ / FATA region, mainly the locally made arms Check out his personal site: http://khyberarmoury.com/

AbdullahK@SilahReport.com

Mick

Open Source Coordinator

Researcher with a regional focus on the small arms and light weapons and non-state armed actors in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Twitter @AnalystMick (https://twitter.com/AnalystMick). He can be reached either on Twitter or at mick@silahreport.com.

Omer M. Sayadi

Researcher and Language Coordinator

Omer Sayadi studies symbols, weapon markings, and vexillology of the MENA. He holds a Master’s degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from the KU Leuven. His work can be found on Twitter and on his website. He is self-employed through his freelance company Namdubsar.

Mackenzie

Social Media Coordinator

Mackenzie is an explosives engineer who runs the social media platforms of Silah Report.