Max Rod - sv8pt5 #116

Max Rodenbeck is a British/American journalist and author based in London. He is currently the Israel/Palestine Director at the International Crisis Group. Previously, he was the Culture Correspondent for The Economist magazine, where he wrote on international affairs for over 20 years. He was previously The Economist's Berlin Bureau Chief in Berlin, South Asia Bureau Chief in New Delhi from 2016 to 2022 and Middle East Bureau Chief in Cairo from 2000 to 2015. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Cairo: The City Victorious, regarded as one of the best single-volume biographies of the city available, and is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and Foreign Policy magazine. He has been described as "one of the foremost experts on today’s Middle East".