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Ariel Zirulnick

Middle East Editor

Ariel Zirulnick is the Monitor's Middle East editor, overseeing regional coverage for both CSMonitor.com and the weekly magazine. She is also a contributor to the international desk's terrorism and security blog.

Prior to the Monitor, she was a fellow with the Knight Foundation's News21 program and interned with the Jerusalem Post in Jerusalem and Congress Daily, an Atlantic Media Company publication, in Washington. She also traveled to Berlin in 2011 with the US-German Fulbright Commission as a Berlin Capital Program fellow. 

She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's journalism school with a second major in international studies, focused on the Middle East. While there, she spent two years as an editor for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's independent student daily. She also spent a semester studying Middle East politics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and doing an independent reporting project on the African refugee community there.

Recent stories

Doing Good

 

What happens when ordinary people decide to pay it forward? Extraordinary change...

Paul Giniès is the general manager of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Burkina Faso, which trains more than 2,000 engineers from more than 30 countries each year.

Paul Giniès turned a failing African university into a world-class problem-solver

Today 2iE is recognized as a 'center of excellence' producing top-notch home-grown African engineers ready to address the continent's problems.

 
 
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