JOHN R. BRADLEY

John R. Bradley was born in England in 1970 and was educated at University College London, Dartmouth College, and Exeter College, Oxford.

His first book on the Middle East was the critically acclaimed Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), which was a Foreign Affairs bestseller. His new book is Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2008). He also wrote the Saudi Arabia and Iraq chapters for The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle East (4th ed; 2004).

An Arabic speaker, Bradley has been reporting from the Middle East region since 1999, mainly Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Yemen. As the managing editor of Arab News in Jeddah, he was the only permanently based, fully accredited Western journalist in Saudi Arabia for two and a half years (from three months before September 11, 2001). In addition, he filed breaking news stories and in-depth features from inside Saudi Arabia for Reuters and The Associated Press. Previously, he worked for 18 months as a senior editor at Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo.

His essays, dispatches, and reviews have appeared in many publications, including The Washington Quarterly, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, Salon, The Washington Times, The Economist, Newsweek, Prospect, The London Telegraph, The London Sunday Times, The Financial Times, and The Independent.

Bradley has been interviewed about his books and developments in the Middle East region many times by major American and British television and radio outlets, including: Fox News, Sky News, CNN, the BBC, C-SPAN, Channel 4 News, NPR, VOA, PBS, Air America, and CBS.

He has been invited to talk on the Middle East most recently by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Pacific Council for International Affairs, and Intelligence Squared.