Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Research Fellow at the Forum for Regional Thinking, an Israeli-Palestinian think-tank, and a doctoral student in Princeton University's politics department. She is also a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Her research focuses on Iraq and Syria and is based on a large network of contacts across the region and extensive fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, and Palestine. Ms. Tsurkov has also worked as a consultant with the Atlantic Council, International Crisis Group, and the European Institute for Peace.