Joost Hiltermann is the Program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group. He has lectured at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and the University of Kent, and is the author of A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, Middle East Report, and numerous other publications. On Twitter:
@JoostHiltermann.