Frederick Deknatel is the managing editor of World Politics Review, an online global affairs magazine, based in New York. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. He was previously a staff editor at Foreign Affairs and, earlier, worked on the editorial staff of Rolling Stone and The Nation. In 2008 and 2009, he was a Fulbright fellow in Damascus, Syria, where he also worked for the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR. He has an M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St Antony's College at Oxford and a B.A. in history and Arabic from Vassar.

Contact him at frederickdeknatel [at] gmail [dot] com and on Twitter @freddydeknatel. Photo by Stephanie Badini.