Zaki Chehab

Zaki Chehab is one of the Arab world's leading journalists. He has covered the Middle East for local and Western media (including the Guardian, CNN, Channel 4 News, the BBC and The New Statesman) for twenty-five years. He is political editor of the London-based Al Hayat and of the Arabic TV channel LBC. Chehab has interviewed many world leaders including Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein, George Bush senior, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and most of the Arab world's kings, sheikhs, and presidents.

His first book Iraq Ablaze: Inside the Insurgency, provided the first authoritative portrait of the insurgency in all its complexity, ferocity and passion. It was published to critical acclaim in 2006 by I.B. Tauris in the UK and Nation Books in the US.

Zaki Chehab's Inside Hamas: The Untold Story draws on his unique sources to tell the story of this radical movement as it has never been told before. It was sold to I.B. Tauris in the UK and Nation Books in the US.