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Biography

I have just completed two years as the editor for the Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, an annual bursary for complex, long-form reporting. Much of our work focused on corruption and the legacy of war. Our stories were published widely in the international press – including The Guardian, the New Statesman, The Atlantic, and The Independent. I am a finalist in the investigative reporting category of the European Press Prize 2013. My work as an editor was also shortlisted for the same prize last year. Another award, the Reporting Europe Prize, was given in 2013 for a story that I had edited. I spent two years in Iraq, from 2008 to 2010, as an editor and freelance reporter. I followed Iraqi bomb-disposal experts for Vanity Fair and wrote about the Iraqi police’s fight against insurgents for the Financial Times Weekend magazine. As an editor with IWPR.net, I produced investigative reports that sought to hold Iraqi government and security agencies to account. Our work was the subject of a short film about new reporting techniques in conflict zones. The film was featured in a discussion at London’s Frontline Club about the changing role of local journalists. I joined the BBC in 2003 and spent five years there. I reported on the legacy of Bosnia’s jihadis for Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent programme, and on the aftermath of an earthquake in Pakistani Kashmir. I tracked down a group of Chinese Uighur men who were deported to Albania after being held without charge by the US military at Guantanamo Bay – a process I called “extraordinary rehabilitation”. I met Chechen refugees and former fighters in the Caucasus, and I’ve crossed the “frozen” frontline between South Ossetia and Georgia. Based in the BBC’s London headquarters, I was a writer for the world news website and a producer for flagship radio and TV shows. I graduated in English Literature from Cambridge University in 2000.

Content

Total articles 16

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  State capture: Zuma, the Guptas, and the sale of South Africa

  By Neil Arun

  Jul. 15, 2019

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  State capture: Zuma, the Guptas, and the sale of South Africa

  By Neil Arun

  Jul. 14, 2019

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  El misterioso vínculo entre "Star Wars" y el hotel "en forma de pirámide invertida" de Túnez que podría desaparecer

  By Neil Arun

  May. 18, 2019

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Balkan Insight