"Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City" out now across North America with Other Press.

Award-winning writer and journalist, based in the UK.Author, 'Nine Quarters of Jerusalem' (2022).Journalism published widely around the world. Bylines include the BBC, CNN, the Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, National Geographic Traveller, Aramco World, The Author, Jazeera, High Life, Voyager, Sunday Times Travel, BBC Wildlife, Geographical, Gulf Life, Oryx, CNN Traveller, and more.Writer and updater of four books for the travel publishers Rough Guides (on Jordan, Switzerland, Italian Lakes and the Cotswolds).Blog: matthewteller.comTweet: @matthewteller

Author: 'Quite Alone: Journalism from the Middle East 2008-2019'

'Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City' out now with Profile Books.

Producer, "Hurricane Bells" - arts documentary following an artist creating sculpture responding to climate change, from conception to execution - BBC Radio 4, November 2018.Producer, "Lines of Resistance" - arts documentary on how women, especially women of colour, have resisted dominant narratives in poetry - BBC Radio 4, October 2017.Producer, "Farming Penguins" - personal accounts of mixing farming and tourism on the Falkland Islands - BBC Radio 4, May 2017.Producer, "Costing The Earth: Exploding Penguins" - environment documentary on conservation challenges facing the Falkland Islands - BBC Radio 4, May 2017.Producer & presenter, "Witness: Escape from the South Atlantic" - a personal account from the outbreak of war in 1982 - BBC World Service, May 2016.Producer, "Costing The Earth: The Mars of the Mid-Atlantic" - environment documentary examining conservation challenges on Ascension Island - BBC Radio 4, April 2016.Producer, "Back to the Ice" - landmark one-off documentary on BBC weather presenter Peter Gibbs's return to Halley, the UK's most remote research station in Antarctica - BBC Radio 4, March 2016.Writer & presenter, "The Naked Diplomat" - investigating the digital strategy of Britain's Ambassador to Lebanon, Tom Fletcher - BBC World Service, August 2015.Writer & presenter, "Sandhurst and the Sheikhs", a documentary examining the UK's links with royal families of the Gulf and wider Middle East - BBC Radio 4, August 2014; BBC World Service, March 2015.Regular contributor to BBC news and current affairs programmes, including "From Our Own Correspondent" (Radio 4 and World Service), reporting from Cairo, Jerusalem, Doha, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.Multiple long-form written features and series for BBC News Online.Studio guest for BBC World News TV, Sky News and others for comment on Middle East affairs.

Staff editor for Rough Guides, the UK's best-known travel guidebook publishers.