Reporting from the Front Line

For more than three decades Jeremy Bowen has witnessed history unfold across the world's most challenging regions. Drawing on his acclaimed books and extraordinary experiences, he offers a compelling insight into war, diplomacy and the people whose lives are shaped by conflict. A rare chance to hear from one of Britain's most respected journalists. Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's International Editor, previously the Middle East Editor for almost twenty years. He has covered hostilities from over seventy countries, covering thirteen wars including those in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Chechnya, Somalia, the Middle East, Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. 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, War Stories, and The Arab Uprisings. His most recent title, The Making of the Modern Middle East (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 year on from publication, it hit the Sunday Times bestseller charts.