Allison Meakem is an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to joining FP, she worked for the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, reported for Deutsche Welle in Brussels, and studied language in Jordan and Turkey. She is a graduate of Brown University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in international relations.
Lebanese, Palestinian, and Iraqi Americans form a human chain during an Arab unity rally in front of Dearborn City Hall in Dearborn, Michigan, on June 6, 2007.