Mehr Nadeem is a journalist covering politics, technology and business in the Middle East and Pakistan. Mehr has covered foreign policy for Bloomberg News in Washington D.C., reported on Kashmir from Reuters Pakistan and Afghanistan bureau, covered Lebanon’s anti-government protest movement in 2019 with The Daily Star, and written tech-driven stories about Saudi, Iran and Pakistan for Rest of World. 

Currently, Mehr is pursuing an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford University, specializing in Arabic and intellectual history. Her MPhil dissertation is titled ‘Money, Materialism and Modernity: How A Discourse of Resistance Rose Against the Age of Prosperity in 1970s Saudi Arabia’ and traces Saudi newspaper discourse following the 1973 oil boom. She graduated from Yale in 2019 with a B.A. in History and a distinction as a Yale Journalism Scholar. In 2019, she was one of sixteen foreign correspondents to be awarded the Overseas Press Club of America fellowship.

Born in London to Pakistani parents, Mehr spent most of her life in Saudi Arabia and is proficient in Urdu, Hindi and Arabic. Mehr spends most of her time somewhere between London, Lahore and Riyadh.