I've been working as a journalist since 1999, mostly covering the Middle East, Central
Asia and the southeast Mediterranean.
A writer, photographer and television producer, I studied Arabic and Modern Middle
Eastern Studies at Oxford University (BA, 2:1) as well as Persian and Contemporary
Iranian Studies at Tehran's School of International Studies (MA).
A year spent living in Damascus, then another year in Cairo, gave me a taste of
two of the Arab World's great cultural and political capitals. In addition, I lived
for four months in Qatar, a rapidly-developing emirate on the Persian Gulf. A year's
break in Athens in 2003-04 allowed me to work for BBC World during the buildup to
the Olympics as well as produce a travel program for Greek TV. In addition, I covered
Turkey and Cyprus for several newspapers.
After the Olympics, I moved to Tehran and the biggest developing story in the Middle
East. During this time, trips to Afghanistan and Iraq broadened my understanding
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