Jared Malsin is a freelance journalist based in Cairo. He is a regular contributor to TIME, and his writing has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, VICE, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Columbia Journalism Review, Al Jazeera America, GlobalPost, The National, and The New York Times blog, The Local East Village, among other publications. From 2007-2010, he worked in the West Bank and Gaza for the independent Palestinian news agency Ma’an and served as the agency's chief English editor.