Neri Zilber is an Israel-based fellow of the ​Institute of Current World Affairs​​. ​ He was most recently a freelance writer on international politics and culture living in New York City. Previously, he was a researcher and analyst specializing on the Middle East at the U.S. Library of Congress​, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the World Jewish Congress. His writings have appeared in outlets including the Guardian, Dissent, Foreign Policy, the Jerusalem Post, and PBS’s Frontline, and he is a contributor to The Occupy Handbook (Little, Brown, April 2012). Zilber was raised and educated in Israel, Singapore, Spain, and the United States. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.