Podcast 2: Interview with Hugh Miles, author and journalist

BIO:
Hugh Miles is an award-winning freelance writer and journalist. In 2000 he was The Times Young Journalist of the year. He has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Time Out Magazine, History Today and others, and his writing on Al Jazeera has been translated into Arabic for publication in the Middle East.

His interest in the Arab world stems from his childhood - he was born in Saudi Arabia, attended primary school in Libya and later went on to read Arabic at Oxford. His father, now retired was a British diplomat.

During the invasion of Iraq he worked freelance for Sky News and spent three weeks monitoring several Arab news stations, including Al Jazeera. This experience led him to write his first book, "Al Jazeera - How Arab TV News Challenged the World" which was published in January in the UK, by Time Warner Books.

Besides writing, he also works as a freelance consultant, often for a UK consultancy company called MEC International (Middle East Consultants), which helps Western companies do business in the Middle East. In recent months he has spoken at various conferences about propaganda, the news in Iraq, and the future of the Arab media. Amongst others, he has recently addressed the BBC, Sandhurst Military Academy and the US Government in Washington