Nicholas Jubber
From 7 October to 11 November 2020

Nicholas Jubber was born in England in 1977. After graduating Oxford, he had been teaching in Jerusalem for two weeks when the Second Intifada broke out, at which point he decided to travel around the Middle East and East Africa. He has written plays and numerous articles for prestigious news sources such as The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, and The Observer. Inspired by this first trip, his first book The Prester Quest (Transworld, 2006) won the Dolman Travel Book Award. He also published Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard: A Journey Through the Inside-Out Worlds of Iran and Afghanistan (Ingram, 2010), The Timbuktu School for Nomads: Lessons from the People of the Desert (John Murray Press, 2016) and Epic Continent: Adventures in the Great Stories of Europe (John Murray Press, 2019).