Rebecca Lowe

Rebecca Lowe is a freelance journalist, living and working in London, who specialises in human rights and the Middle East. She has written for the Guardian, BBC, Evening Standard, Independent, Economist, Sunday Times Magazine, Daily Mail, Huffington Post and IranWire, as well as numerous travel and consumer magazines. She was previously the lead reporter at the International Bar Association, where she focused on human rights and the rule of law and wrote extensively about the Arab Spring. She holds a BA in English literature from Cambridge University and an MA in journalism from Stanford University, where she was awarded a scholarship. The Slow Road to Tehran has been shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2023.