Ruth Michaelson is a journalist based in Istanbul, writing about life across the Middle East, the environment, and tech.

  • ‘No one can bring back what we lost’: fears rise among poor in Turkish city ravaged by earthquakes – The Observer

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  • The Bank Robbers Stealing Their Own Money- Bloomberg Businessweek

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  • ‘People are terrified’: Gaza’s main hospital overflows with the living and the dead – The Guardian

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  • Egypt’s bad cop: The story of one man, fighting to his last breath, to reveal the darkness that lies behind this year’s UN Climate Change Conference

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  • ‘They want revenge. They’re saying, either we die or you die’: West Bank residents fear rising tide of violence– The Guardian

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  • ‘I’m not just covering the news – I’m living it’: Gaza’s citizen journalists chronicling life in war

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  • Turkey’s drones had a bad reputation. The war in Ukraine has changed that

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  • ‘Illegal’ extradition of Bahraini dissident from Serbia calls Interpol’s role into question

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I’m a journalist who has been based in the Middle East since 2012, and Turkey since 2021.

My work is mainly published in the Guardian, where I cover Turkey and the wider Middle East, especially North Africa and the Gulf.

I’ve also written for Bloomberg Businessweek, TIME, the Columbia Journalism Review, Coda Story, Smithsonian Magazine, the New Statesman, Monocle, and many of your other favourite magazines and websites.

I’m a frequent contributor to Monocle24, and a past regular on France 24, as well as Deutsche Welle.

Contact

For work related to the Guardian:
ruth.michaelson@guardian.co.uk

For all other work:
ruth@ruthmichaelson.com

TR: +90 544 928 28 43
UK: +44 7950 218 594

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