After taking a first in Arabic at Cambridge University in 1969, Jim worked in book publishing in London in the early 70s and moved to Beirut in January 1975. He covered all phases of the Lebanese ...

Thank you for following developments on the BBC. 0053The BBC's Jim Muir in Cairo says: "Mr Obama did state that the transition must be peaceful and start now. But he did not actually say that Mr ...

Jim Muir, one of the most seasoned Western journalists in the Middle East, has been covering the Arab-Israeli conflict for almost 50 years. Muir tells Al-Monitor that the latest round of fighting ...

Jim Muir considers the Kurds' flight from Saddam Hussein 25-years ago and what has happened to some of the people he encountered back then. Bethany Bell is in Austria where voting could result in ...

BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir revisits the exodus. Show more Twenty-five years ago, thousands of Iraqi Kurds lost their lives as they fled the forces of Saddam Hussein into the Zagros and ...