David Gardner

David Gardner is chief leader writer and associate editor of the Financial Times. He was the paper's middle-east editor from 1995-99. In 2003 he won the David Watt prize for political journalism for his writing on the Arab world.

David Gardner is the author of Last Chance: the Middle East in the Balance (IB Tauris, 2003)

The new war for the Middle East

ISIS has stepped opportunistically into the vacuum created by the absence of state, loss of shared narrative and feeble leverage of powers. But there may be a way ahead. A NOREF report.

By David Gardner

/ 17 Aug 2015

Israel-Palestine: solving the refugee question

The increasingly ill-tempered standoff between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu over illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Arab east Jerusalem is a vivid reminder of the formidable

By David Gardner

/ 18 Aug 2009