Mimi Kirk was previously Program Manager at the Middle East Studies Association and Managing Director of Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network. She serves on the Board of Americans for Middle East Understanding and the forthcoming Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism, and is the editor of the new Journal for the Study of Christian Zionism. Her writing has appeared in Middle East Report, the Atlantic, Jadaliyya, and Al Jazeera, among other publications.