Nicolas Pelham

Nicolas Pelham is a writer on the Middle East for “The Economist” and the “New York Review of Books”. Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based “Middle East Times”, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the “Financial Times” and “The Economist” based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq, often dragging his indefatigable family with him. He is the author of “A New Muslim Order” and co-author of “A History of the Middle East”. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG), and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.