Ben Hubbard

Ben Hubbard is the Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times. An Arabic speaker with more than a decade in the Middle East, he has covered coups, civil wars, protests, jihadist groups, rotten fish as cuisine, religion and pop culture from more than a dozen countries, including Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and Yemen. He is the author of “MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman.”

Born and raised in Colorado, he studied history and French at Northwestern University, served in the Peace Corps in Togo, and received a Master’s in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined The Times after nearly five years at The Associated Press, where he and his colleagues were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2013 for coverage of the war in Syria.