Jeremy Bowen

Jeremy Bowen was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, between 1995 and 2000 and the BBC Middle East editor from 2005 to 2022, and went on to be International Editor of BBC News in August 2022. While Middle East Editor he led the coverage of the 2011 'Arab Spring' and the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, for which BBC News was awarded an International Emmy. He also won a first prize at the Bayeux War Correspondent Awards for a Panorama film on the Gaza War of 2009. A...See more

Jeremy Bowen was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, between 1995 and 2000 and the BBC Middle East editor from 2005 to 2022, and went on to be International Editor of BBC News in August 2022. While Middle East Editor he led the coverage of the 2011 'Arab Spring' and the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, for which BBC News was awarded an International Emmy. He also won a first prize at the Bayeux War Correspondent Awards for a Panorama film on the Gaza War of 2009. A seasoned war correspondent, Jeremy has reported from more than 70 countries and has covered conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and Rwanda, Iraq, Algeria and Kosovo. See less