Zeynep Koç is a research fellow at Al Sharq Forum. Prior to joining Al Sharq, she was a Dr. Herchel Smith fellow at the University of Cambridge conducting Economic and Anthropological
research about the MENA region. Zeynep has an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. from Williams College in Economics and Arabic Studies. Her current
work focuses on the Turkey-US relations within the scope ofnlarger US-Middle East relations, particularly within the contexts of Syria and Iraq.