1. Martin Chulov Martin covers the Middle East for the Guardian.
He has reported from the region since 2005.
In 2015, he won the Orwell prize for journalism.
The Orwell prizes reward the writing that comes closest to achieving Orwell’s ambition to ‘make political writing an art’. 

2. Martin Chulov wins the Orwell Prize
“Due to the very high quality and variety of the entries, this was a very difficult prize to judge. Chulov stood out for telling us something we didn’t know about what was going on in the Middle East, with insightful analysis based on great stories. It is work like this that prevents one of the most important stories of our time from being dangerously neglected. It was therefore a unanimous decision to award the prize to him.”
Caroline Johnson, Judge