Farris Hassan (born July 30, 1989) is an American who at 16 years old, while a junior at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, took an unaccompanied trip to Iraq.
Failing to cross the Iraqi border by taxi, he then flew to Beirut, Lebanon, where he stayed with friends of the family and interviewed a media relations officer of Hezbollah.
The Society for Love & Justice is a humanitarian organization that Farris Hassan established with support from members of his community in 2006.
[2] Hassan said he went to examine the reconstruction of the country, the development of women's rights and education after 25 years of war, how civil problems such as the enormous number of street children and lack of infrastructure are being met, and to see what he could do to help.
Following his junior year at Amherst he became a financial analyst for Morgan Stanley, which he left in 2012 to found a hedge fund.