Sean Mathews

Sean Mathews is a journalist covering a wide swath of the Middle East and southeastern Europe. He is a correspondent with Middle East Eye.

Sean previously wrote for The Economist, Al Monitor, and Al Jazeera English, among others. He has reported across Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece. He previously consulted with several leading political risk and advisory firms in Washington, DC and London.

His first book, The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East (Hurst), is a bold reappraisal of Greece's place in the wider Middle East. Greece sits in the center of an arc of instability stretching from the Black Sea to the Red Sea. Its geopolitical importance is on the rise in a multipolar world. Using the Greeks to explore a shrinking region, Mathews travels across Balkan borderlands, Turkey, Israel, and Egypt to unpack new alliances, the rise of middle powers, and Greece's overlooked oriental history.