Ali Gharib is a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, where he focuses on US foreign policy. He previously served as a senior editor at Open Zion, a Mideast blog at the Daily Beast. His pieces have appeared in Foreign Policy, Washington Monthly, Columbia Journalism Review, Al Jazeera America, Haaretz, and Salon. He worked as a reporter at ThinkProgress and Inter Press Service. He's on Twitter @ali_gharib.