Before joining ISS Robert worked as an editor with Tunisia Live, a news outlet based in Tunis. At TL, he covered Tunisia's post-revolution transition including the passage of a new constitution, youth unemployment, and ongoing police violence. Robert graduated Princeton University with a degree in Near Eastern Studies. At Princeton, he studied Arabic, MENA history, politics and journalism and interned with ISS, Human Rights First and World Policy Journal. His thesis covered the influence of Palestinian solidarity activism in Egyptian political history and its impact on the 2011 revolution, involving fieldwork in Cairo. Robert has lived in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Hong Kong.