Frederick Deknatel is the Executive Editor of Democracy in Exile, the journal of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), which was founded by the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Freddy was previously the Managing Editor of World Politics Review from 2017 to 2021, and has also been a Staff Editor at Foreign Affairs. His writing and reporting on the Middle East have appeared in The Nation, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The National, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. His chapter on reconstruction in Syria was recently published in Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, edited by James Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss and published by the Getty. His writing has also been anthologized in Out of Practice, a collection of the first ten issues of the wonderful but short-lived Even Magazine (once called “the old-school-by-young-people smarty-pants art journal”). In 2008 and 2009, he was a Fulbright fellow in 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.