Jim Muir was born on 3 June 1948 and is a British journalist, currently serving as a Middle East correspondent for BBC News, based in Beirut, Lebanon.
11 Facts About Jim Muir
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Jim Muir drove to Beirut after Christmas 1974, assuming Lebanon to be a safe haven in the turbulent Arab world.
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Jim Muir was the Beirut correspondent for the Inter Press Service between 1975 and 1978, and then became a freelance correspondent for the BBC, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio, among others.
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In 1980, Jim Muir had to relocate to Cyprus and make periodic visits to Lebanon after being put on a Syrian hitlist.
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Jim Muir is thought to be "the only western correspondent to cover the [civil war] from start to finish".
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Jim Muir said of Lebanon: "They used to say Lebanon was the country where you could ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon," he says.
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Jim Muir spent time embedded with the Kurdish Pesh Merga army as they defended themselves against the Iraqi central government.
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Jim Muir continued to cover Lebanon and the wider Middle East, as well as Afghanistan and Bosnia between 1993 and 1994.
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Jim Muir became a Middle East correspondent for BBC News based in Cairo, Egypt, between 1995 and 1999, in Tehran, Iran between 1999 and 2004, and he returned to Beirut in 2004.
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Jim Muir has been a lead reporter on various stories, including the election of Mohammad Khatami as President of Iran, the Algerian Civil War, and most recently, the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive.
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In 2010, Jim Muir received the MBI Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Media Awards.