Nicolas Pelham is the Middle East correspondent for The Economist based in London and a contributor on Arab affairs to The New York Review of Books and London Review of Books. He has been a correspondent for the BBC in North Africa and Financial Times in Baghdad. He is the author of A New Muslim Order (2008), A History of the Middle East with Peter Mansfield (2012) and Holy Lands (2016) which explores the region’s pluralist past. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he worked as a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In 2017 he won the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Journalism.
Nicholas Pelham
MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT AT THE ECONOMIST