Arthur Neslen


Arthur Neslen is a British-born journalist and author of two books about identity in the Middle East. Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche was published by Pluto Press in 2006 and In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian was published by University of California Press in October, 2011. He is also the author of the booklet Gaza: Dignity Under Siege which was published by CIDSE in 2009. All three are collections of interviews and photographs.
Neslen began his career at the City Limits magazine and worked as the international editor of for Red Pepper and as a broadcast journalist for the BBC. He has written about the Middle East for The Guardian, The Observer, Haaretz, Jane's Information Group and as a correspondent for the websites of The Economist and al-Jazeera .
After moving to Brussels, Neslen began working for The Guardian in 2014 as the paper’s , where he contributed to its award-winning campaign.
His investigative reports often focused on how EU climate policy had been influenced by lobbying from fossil fuel majors including , , , . One report showed how US officials had pressured the EU into weakening pesticides regulations, in negotiations over the TTIP trade deal.
Other stories that he broke included the European Food Safety Authority’s use of an to justify a recommendation for relicensing glyphosate. The story was later .
NGOs credited policy changes at the , and  in part to Neslen’s work.     
He is currently a senior reporter for .