
Middle East Correspondent
Oliver Marsden is an award-winning Beirut-based correspondent for The Observer, covering the Middle East, conflict and the human cost of war. Over the past five years, he has reported from Lebanon, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Mali, Chad and the UK as a writer, photographer and videographer. He won New Journalist of the Year at the 2024 British Journalism Awards and an Emmy Award in 2023 for his Ukraine coverage.

Oliver Marsden
Middle East Correspondent
Oliver Marsden is an award-winning Beirut-based correspondent for The Observer, covering the Middle East, conflict and the human cost of war. Over the past five years, he has reported from Lebanon, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Mali, Chad and the UK as a writer, photographer and videographer. He won New Journalist of the Year at the 2024 British Journalism Awards and an Emmy Award in 2023 for his Ukraine coverage.















