The Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery Expert Directory

Description:
Country expert / award-winning journalist / author / director of consultancy firm specialising in Middle East & North Africa; editor of ArabDigest.org

Experience, Background and Services:
Born in Saudi Arabia in 1977, Hugh Miles is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as director of a boutique consultancy firm specialising in the Middle East and North Africa. He lives in Cairo.

Founder/editor of ArabDigest.org
Arab Digest is a private members club offering expert commentary and analysis on the Middle East and North Africa. It has around 450 elite members worldwide, including decision-makers in business and politics, several people in the British FCO and other foreign ministries, as well as others in the media, the academic world, energy industry etc. Business subscribers who find Arab Digest useful include blue-chip names such as Barclays, HSBC, BP, Chevron and BAE.

Founder/ director of Al Shafie Miles ltd.
Al Shafie Miles Ltd is a business intelligence consultancy specialising in the Middle East and North Africa.
Drawing on a network of highly experienced former UK foreign office officials and other experts we help our clients develop their strategic and commercial interests in the Arab world.
As director Hugh has also served as an expert witness and helped authenticate Arabic documents in over one hundred UK / European / US legal proceedings.

Arab Media and Society magazine - Contributing Editor
Quarterly academic peer-reviewed journal published by the American University in Cairo.

Freelance journalist (since 2000)
I am an investigative journalist specialising in the Middle East and North Africa. I have worked with a variety of media including the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Foreign Policy, London Review of Books, Mirror, Express, Sun, and others. My reporting on Saudi Arabia has appeared on the front pages of the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent and New York Times and I have written, produced and presented several radio and TV programmes for the BBC and Al Jazeera English. 

In 2015 I broke the news that a senior Saudi prince was calling for regime change in Riyadh, a story that went around the world. In 2016 I exposed the Saudi government's secret programme to kidnap Saudi defectors and dissidents living in Europe. In September 2017 I produced the BBC documentary "Kidnapped! Saudi Princes". I was Specialist Producer on the critically acclaimed BBC 2 series "House of Saud - Family at War" (Jan 2018). In 2018 I worked with the BBC Newsnight team on an investigation into the Saudi purge in the Riyadh Ritz which lead promptly to the release of Prince Walid bin Talal. In October 2018 I worked with the BBC on the fast turnaround documentary "Saudi Crown Prince on Trial" about the fallout from the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Please see www.hughmiles.com or my Twitter account https://twitter.com/hughasaurus for more details.

Please see www.alshafiemiles.com for more information.