Zvika Krieger
correspondent for Newsweek magazine

    Zvika Krieger is a correspondent for Newsweek magazine based in the Middle East and is a regular contributor to the New Republic, Slate, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His work has also appeared in the Guardian, New Stateman, Daily Star (Lebanon), Cairo Magazine, Jerusalem Post, Executive: The Middle East Business Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and various other publications, and has appeared as a Middle East analyst on NBC News, CNN, and Fox News.

    He has received fellowships to study topics including the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Kifaya reform movement in Egypt, public health in Bombay slums, religious identity in Kashmir, historical memory in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank, and the role of religion in Lebanese politics, and has also reported from such places as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Dubai, North Ireland, Sri Lanka, Japan, and Korea. His writings have earned him awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Scripps Howard Foundation, the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), and the Atlantic Monthly. He has a bachelor's degree in Middle East Studies from Yale University and studied Arabic at the American University in Cairo.