Oliver Marsden

Lebanon, Middle East

Director, Journalist and Photojournalist at Freelance

Award winning journo dreaming of Kernow. Reposts do not equal endorsements. Mostly @thetimes @TheSTMagazine but also @guardian @FT @CNN @AJEnglish @levant_x

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Articles

An inclusive Syria? Sectarian violence fuels fear for women and Alawites

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden |Roaa Alkaseer
The Arbitration Act 2025 receives Royal Assent

2 months ago | lexology.com | Ashley Jones |Oliver Marsden

The long-anticipated reforms to the Arbitration Act 1996 have officially made it into law, with the Arbitration Act 2025 (the 2025 Act) receiving Royal Assent this week.
Lebanese residents try to return home, only to come under Israeli fire

Jan 26, 2025 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden |South Lebanon
Meet the Israelis bereaved by Hamas who oppose a hostage deal

Jan 23, 2025 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden
Israeli restricts Palestinian celebrations as prisoners freed

Jan 19, 2025 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden |Richard Spencer
Donald Trump picks Lebanese-American in-law as Middle Eastern adviser

Dec 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden

The latest addition to Donald Trump’s government-in-waiting is a Lebanese-American businessman who also happens to be the father-in-law of the president-elect’s youngest daughter. Massad Boulos, whose son Michael is married to Tiffany Trump, has been appointed senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, Trump announced on Truth Social on Sunday.
Hamas shares video of Israeli-American hostage blaming Netanyahu

Dec 1, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden

Hamas has released a video of the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander — who appeared to be speaking under duress — expressing disappointment at Binyamin Netanyahu and sending a “message” to Donald Trump. Alexander, 20, seen for the first time since he was kidnapped on October 7 last year, said he was “disappointed” at the Israeli prime minister’s recent $5 million offer to anyone who returns the hostages alive.
‘My home is broken’: Lebanese families find little peace in wreckage

Nov 29, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden

Sami Hayek almost ran the 12 flights of stairs up to his top floor apartment, skipping every other step. It was the first time he had been home in two months. “We don’t even need a key,” he joked nervously arriving at his front door. It had been blown open by the force of an Israeli airstrike that hit the building next to his. The laughter stopped as soon as he entered his home in Tyre, southern Lebanon.
Lebanese return to their homes, but many find only rubble

Nov 27, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden

In the early hours of Wednesday morning a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel came into effect. Almost immediately, residents of southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut, known locally as the Dahiyeh, began to return home. As the rain began to fall on Beirut, bullets from AK-47s filled the skies. The celebrations had begun. The sounds of car horns and gunfire rang out across the south of the capital.
11 dead as block of flats toppled by Israeli airstrike in Beirut

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Marsden

A huge Israeli airstrike brought down a residential building in central Beirut in the early hours of Saturday. Several bunker-busting bombs targeted the Basta district of the Lebanese capital at 4am without warning. Residents told The Sunday Times how they had scrambled out of bed after their homes shook, and they could smell smoke in the air. “It felt like and earthquake. I jumped out of bed,” said Zeina said, standing 700 metres from the impact zone.