Michael Bassin is a grad­u­ate of The George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in Inter­na­tion­al Affairs. A part­ner in a Tel Aviv-based tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny, he reg­u­lar­ly pro­vides com­men­tary to news out­lets on the Mid­dle East. He has been fea­tured on Pub­lic Radio Inter­na­tion­al, the BBC, the Times of Israel, and the Jerusalem Post. He lives in Ramat Gan, Israel.