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paydesk has 234 reporters who cover Middle East. Our journalists are already on location, all over the world, and ready to work at a moment's notice. Our top correspondents who cover Middle East are Emre Basaran and Mahmut Bozarslan. Use our journalist directory to find an Middle East member to work for you.
Journalists Who Cover Middle East
Emre Basaran
I am a journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. Special reports, fact-based analyses and interviews are my strong suits. I can deliver on time, and I’m an upapologetic perfectionist. Journalism is the job I love and live to do.
English
Journalism
Jobs Completed 1
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Mahmut Bozarslan
Mahmut Bozarslan is a journalist based in Diyarbakır, Turkey. I worked particularly in East and Southeast of Turkey but especially in Norhern Iraq . During this time, I followed almost all terrorist incidents in the region and I made very successful stories. Because of my Kurdish language skill ...
English
Kurdish
Turkish
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+15
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+14
Jobs Completed 1
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Frida Dahmani
Frida Dahmani is a journalist based in Tunis, Tunisia. Biologiste de formation, Frida Dahmani a effectué l’essentiel de son parcours dans les domaines de la communication et de l’édition avant d’intégrer, en 2008 le groupe Jeune Afrique en tant que correspondante du groupe à Tunis. A ce titre, ...
French
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+5
Arts & Books
Breaking News
Fact Checking
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Linda Gradstein
Top Rated
Linda Gradstein is a journalist based in Jerusalem, Israel. She has won several awards for her coverage, including the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. She speaks Hebrew and Arabic and has a Masters in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in ...
Arabic
Hebrew
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+11
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+10
Jobs Completed 431
Job Success Rate 99%
Usually Responds Within a few hours
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Erin Hale
Erin Hale is a journalist based in Taipei.
English
Feature Stories
Corporate Content
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+1
Politics
Current Affairs
Cultural
+2
Jobs Completed 35
Job Success Rate 100%
Usually Responds Within a day
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Dalia Hatuqa
I am a multimedia journalist whose work has appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic and elsewhere. Since 2000, I have divided my time between the U.S. and the West Bank, covering a range of political, economic and cultural issues for print, TV and radio. Before moving back to ...
English
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+12
Fact Checking
Usually Responds Within a day
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Ricardo Israel
Ricardo Israel is a journalist, lawyer, and political scientist based in Hollywood, United States of America. He has a long academic career in Chile, United States, England and Sweden. He is a former Chairperson of the Comitee on Armed Forces and Society of the International Political Science ...
English
Spanish
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Content Writing
Politics
Current Affairs
Breaking News
Jobs Completed 2
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Andrew Jose
Andrew is a Doha based journalist covering Business and Finance, Middle Eastern affairs, and the Aviation industry. He regularly contributes to The Daily Caller and Airways Magazine, and has bylines in Lone Conservative, International Policy Digest, The Georgetown Gazette, and several other outlets.
English
Spanish
News Gathering
Content Writing
Research
+2
Business
Finance
Politics
+6
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Hediye Levent
Hediye Levent | Freelance Journalist With over two decades of experience in journalism, I have been extensively covering the Middle East since 2003. From 2008 to 2021, I was based in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, providing in-depth coverage of the region's complex developments. Currently, I reside in ...
Turkish
Arabic
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+1
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 10
Job Success Rate 60%
Usually Responds Within a day
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Louisa Loveluck
Top Rated
Syria-focused Middle East reporter, based in Beirut. Working with The Washington Post and other international outlets, previously The Daily Telegraph's Cairo Correspondent and Middle East Reporter. I am available for breaking news commissions, as well as in-depth investigations and radio and ...
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+6
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 11
Job Success Rate 92%
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Willy Lowry
Top Rated
Willy Lowry is a Canadian journalist currently based in Arusha, Tanzania. His work appears in The New York Times, Fusion and CBC. He's also appeared on CNN and BBC. As a video journalist, he shoots, writes and edits his own stories. He started his career in Beirut, Lebanon writing for the The Daily ...
English
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+9
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 10
Job Success Rate 91%
Usually Responds Seldom
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Marc Martorell Junyent
Marc Martorell Junyent holds a Bachelor in International Relations and is a second-year student of a master in Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research and political analysis focuses on the Middle East and North Africa region, with ...
Catalan
English
French
+2
Risk Analysis
Research
Investigative Journalism
+2
Politics
Current Affairs
Arts & Books
+3
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Alastair Mccready
Alastair McCready is editor for regional magazine Southeast Asia Globe, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He is able to provide editing, photography and reporting, as well as contacts in country and across the region.
English
Feature Stories
Fact Checking
Politics
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 1
Usually Responds Within a few days
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Nagham Mohanna
Nagham Mohanna is a journalist. I have been working in media and journalism for more than 15 years I worked with many international, regional and local outlets I covered four wars in Gaza besides number of important events, I travelled abroad to develop my skills in journalism and I have conducted ...
English
Feature Stories
Fact Checking
Breaking News
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 1
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Faten Omar
Faten Omar is a freelance journalist, works for several Arabic and English news agencies.Currently, she works for Xinhua, Chinese news agency. Previously she was a reporter at Kuwait-based daily English newspaper Kuwait Times, daily Arabic newspaper Al-Kuwaityah, senior editor at Al-Mustagbal ...
Arabic
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Research
+5
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+18
Usually Responds Within an hour
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Mohamad Seifeddine
Researcher in International Relations, Geopolitics, and the Global Economic Order. Specialized in Security Issues and Russian-NATO Relations. I provide in-depth analyses -both written and video- and serve as a political analyst on television networks.
Arabic
English
French
+1
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+4
Politics
Research
Risk Analysis
Jobs Completed 2
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Richard Spencer
Richard Spencer is Middle East Correspondent for The Times of London, based in Beirut, Lebanon.
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+1
Politics
Current Affairs
War Reporter
+1
Jobs Completed 2
Usually Responds Within a day
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Yun Sun
Yun Sun is a think tank scholar.
English
360 Videography
Research
Jobs Completed 33
Job Success Rate 97%
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Cassandra Vinograd
Cassandra Vinograd is a freelance journalist and producer specializing in conflict, human rights and migration. She previously worked for NBC News, The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal. Her reporting has taken her throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. She is HEFAT certified....
English
French
Wolof
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
News Gathering
+10
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+8
Usually Responds Within a few weeks
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Bruno Waterfield
Bruno Waterfield is Brussels correspondent for The Times. He has been reporting on European affairs for almost 20 years, first from Westminster and then from the capital of the EU. He reported for the Daily Telegraph from Brussels from 2007 to 2015.
English
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+6
Fact Checking
Jobs Completed 4
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Jacob Wirtschafter
Jacob Wirtschafter is a journalist based in Istanbul, Türkiye.
English
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Corporate Content
+7
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+11
Jobs Completed 13
Job Success Rate 92%
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Eszter Zalan
Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist working for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit. Before immersing herself into the "EU bubble", Eszter reported on conflict and war zones from Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt and other places ...
English
Hungarian
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+5
Politics
Current Affairs
Media Training
+3
Jobs Completed 18
Job Success Rate 90%
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