Jeremy Bowen

Jeremy Bowen is the BBC’s International Editor, previously the Middle East Editor for almost twenty years to date. He has covered hostilities from over ninety countries, covering over twenty wars and civil conflicts, including those in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Somalia, the Middle East, Rwanda, former Yugoslavia and most recently Ukraine and Russia and Gaza. He has won a whole host of awards including ones from Royal Television Society, Emmy and BAFTA.

A seasoned war correspondent, Jeremy Bowen provides audiences with riveting anecdotes from a life reporting on the front line at some of the most fraught conflicts of the past twenty years. He has witnessed endless wars between individuals, religious groups and full-sized states, jostling for military, political and economic power. He has interviewed dictators, fanatics and fundamentalists as well as the ordinary people caught up in their dangerous games.

Drawing from his extraordinary life and career, he has published numerous bestsellers to critical acclaim. His books include Six Days (Simon and Schuster, 2012), War Stories (Simon and Schuster, 2012), and The Arab Uprisings (Simon and Schuster, 2013). His most recent title, The Making of the Modern Middle East (Pan Macmillan, 2022), in part based on his popular podcast Our Man in the Middle East, takes us on a journey across the history of the Middle East. With his deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious difference between countries as diverse as Erdogan s Turkey and Netanyahu’ s Israel, he offers readers an invaluable guide to the modern Middle East, how it came to be, and what its future might hold. It was both a Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year and a Sunday Times bestseller.