Orlando Crowcroft

Orlando Crowcroft is World Editor at International Business Times UK. He is a former foreign correspondent who spent five years living in Shanghai, Dubai and Jerusalem and has reported from a dozen countries including Iraq, Egypt, Israel and Palestine. He joined IBTimes UK in March 2015 and is responsible for coordinating coverage of foreign affairs. His first book - Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East – is out in June 2017, published by Zed Books. Follow him on Twitter at @ocrowcroft.