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PRESS RELEASE – 10/10/2006
Middle East Menu for Business Breakfast
BBC Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen will discuss his desire to become a war reporter and how the nature of the job has changed when he addresses business leaders in Dundee next week.
The award winning journalist will be the keynote speaker at the City of Discovery Business Breakfast at Discovery Point on Friday, November 10th. Jeremy Bowen will discuss his gripping and thought-provoking new book ‘War Stories’, which charts his progress from a young novice to the veteran he is today.
Lord Provost John Letford, chairman of the City of Discovery Campaign, said “the Middle East is a very complex region of the world and am very interested to learn more about Jeremy’s motivation to report on the issues the area faces.”
He said, “We are privilege to again have the opportunity to draw on the knowledge and experience of an expert who has travelled extensively to such war-torn areas of the world to give the British public a greater understanding of the issues faced by the Middle East.”
“I am interested to hear about Mr Bowen’s experiences in some of the world's most dangerous places which he describes in his new book and the changes that have taken place in the ways in which wars are reported over the course of his career.”
Jeremy Bowen has spent almost two decades as a foreign correspondent in some of the world’s most dangerous places, most recently appearing daily on our television screens from the heart of the conflict in Lebanon.
Jeremy was appointed to the newly-created role of Middle East Editor in June 2005. The new role is designed to enhance the audience's understanding of the Middle East; and to provide extra commentary, focus and analysis to an increasingly complex area of the world.
In order to provide a broader perspective on wider Middle East issues, Jeremy is be based in the World Affairs Unit in London, but travels extensively throughout the region.
Jeremy had been a special correspondent for BBC Television News since March 2003, including his most recent assignment in Rome. He previously co-presented BBC One's Breakfast for two years after its launch in October 2000.
Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as news trainee. He then spent spells in the Radio Newsroom and as a Television News correspondent before becoming Geneva correspondent for Radio News in 1987.
As a seasoned war correspondent, he has reported from more than 70 countries, covering conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the West Bank, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and Rwanda.
Jeremy became the Middle East correspondent in 1995 and won Best News Correspondent at the New York Television Festival. He repeated this success the following year, when he won Best Breaking News report for his coverage of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.
During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, he reported extensively from the region, often in dangerous conditions, which included being robbed at gunpoint by bandits whilst reporting from the Albanian border. In August 1999 he presented a special programme examining the aftermath of the Turkish earthquake.
Born in Cardiff in 1960, Jeremy was educated at Cardiff High School. He attended University College London and then went to the John Hopkins University in both Italy and the USA.
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