John R Bradley was educated at University College London, Dartmouth College in the United States and Exeter College, Oxford. He has written extensively on Saudi and wider Middle East issues for many publications, and wrote the Saudi and Iraq chapters for
The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle East (4th ed; 2003). A former senior editor at
Al-Ahram Weekly in Cairo and managing editor at the Jeddah-based
Arab News, he is the author of
Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis (Palgrave-Macmillan, June 2005).