Hugh Miles was born in Saudi Arabia in 1977. He is an award-winning freelance journalist and author, a presenter, producer and consultant specialising in the Middle East. He is married to an Egyptian psychiatrist named Dina, and they live between Cairo and London.
Hugh Miles was born in Jedda, Saudi Arabia in 1977. He studied Arabic at Pembroke College, Oxford University, and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His first and most formative experience of professional journalism was as an office boy at the News of the World in Dublin.
During a one-year student exchange programme with the Sorbonne University in Paris, Hugh worked as the Nightlife Editor for Time Out Paris, also reviewing restaurants and shops. His work included sampling every crepe house in Paris.
In 2000 Hugh was chosen as The Times / Sky News Young Journalist of the Year.
The day he graduated from university, Hugh flew to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, to start work as a Development Director for Oscar-winning Producer Michael Phillips (Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sting). Besides working on a big budget script set in wartime Cairo, Hugh helped package movies, raise finance, attract talent, manage scriptwriters and pitch projects.
In 2002 Hugh returned to the UK to become a freelance writer. Since then he has worked for many newspapers and magazines, and has produced and presented for BBC Radio 4 and for Al Jazeera International. He is a frequent guest in the international media and at conferences, addressing audiences around the world about the Arab media and the war for hearts and minds in the Muslim world.
Hugh’s first book, Al Jazeera – How Arab TV News Challenged the World was published in January 2005 by Abacus. It garnered five star reviews around the world and was serialised in part in the New York Times and the Denver Post.
Al Jazeera has been reissued several times and translated into many different languages. In November 2006 Hugh was awarded the Grand Prix du Livre des Dirigeants, catégorie Livre d'investigation in Paris.
Besides writing, Hugh works as a consultant specialising in the Arab media. His clients have included the United Nations and the Iraqi and American governments.
Hugh’s second book “Playing Cards in Cairo” was published in April 2008.
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Hugh is an award-winning freelance journalist, who contributes regularly to many different magazines and newspapers.
His articles have covered a wide variety for topics, ranging from terrorism and the Arab media, to politics, palaeontology and the London property market.
In 2000 he was selected as The Times / Sky News Young Journalist of the Year.
Before he became a freelancer, Hugh worked as editorial assistant at the Irish News of the World in Dublin, and then as Nightlife Editor for Time Out Paris. He began his freelance career working for Sky News in London and in 2005 made his debut writing and presenting for BBC Radio 4.
Hugh is the contributing editor of Arab Media and Society (formerly Transnational Broadcasting Studies), a media journal published by the American University in Cairo’s Centre for Television Journalism.
Besides writing, Hugh has worked as a fixer for British newspapers in Egypt, including the Sun, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror.
The last three years he has been working as a stringer for the Daily Telegraph in Cairo.
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Print:
Click on the newspaper to take you to a sample of some of Hugh’s work.
- Keys to the kingdom: Inside Saudi Arabia's royal family
Sunday Independent
29 March
- Up Front, Irish Times
- Hugh Miles: Lockerbie: was it Iran? Syria? All I know is, it wasn't the man in prison, Sunday Independent
- Classical Libya, New Statesman
- Balzac in Cairo, New Statesman
- A Cairo Conversion, Prospect Magazine
- My Kind of Town, Telegraph
- Contributor to The Al Jazeera Decade
Al Jazeera 10th Anniversary Commemorative Annual
November 2006
- Lockerbie - Inconvenient Truths. London Review of Books
- London Review of Books
- Daily Telegraph
- Guardian
- BBC Website
- Sunday Telegraph
- History Today
- Foreign Policy Magazine
- Independent
- Arab Media and Society (formerly Transnational Broadcasting Studies)
Arabic Site
