Phil Rees

Phil Rees is a Welsh writer, reporter and television producer who has specialised in international relations. He has won more than a dozen international awards for his work.

Background

Rees graduated from Oxford University in 1982. In the same year, he joined the BBC as a trainee journalist and began his career as a reporter on television news in Northern Ireland. He has covered Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas during his career. He has written widely and presented or produced nearly fifty documentaries.

At the BBC, his reports appeared on the nightly TV news, Newsnight, Correspondent, World Service Radio, NPR and BBC World News satellite and cable channel. In 2006, Rees set up Out of Office Films, a TV production company based in London. It has made programmes for Channel 4, ZDF, Al Jazeera, ERT (Greece) and Swedish television.

His awards include two from the Royal Television Society for best foreign affairs documentary (1994 & 1998). From 1986 - 2002, Rees covered Asia, the Middle East, South and Central America for the BBC’s news and current affairs’ department.

Written works

• Dining with Terrorists: Meetings with the World's Most Wanted Militants (2005)

Documentary films

Dining with Terrorists (Al Jazeera English) http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2009/02/20092565012929122.html

• Dispatches: At Home with the Terror Suspects
• Dispatches: Britain Under Attack (MPACUK criticism and prasie for 'Britain Under Attack')

External links

• Phil Rees' official website
• Official Dispatches page for documentary
• Daily Mail article on documentary
• Telegraph article on documentary
• Phil Rees official Guardian article on documentary by Phil Rees
• BBC on Phil Rees
• IslamicAwakening discussion on 'Britain Under Attack'
• MPACUK on documentary
• Inside Story - 9 Sept - New Bin Laden tape - Part 1 - featuring Phil Rees (video)
• Inside Story - 9 Sept - New Bin Laden tape - Part 2 - featuring Phil Rees (video)