Tim Judah

Elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Judah has reported on the Euromaidan Revolution and the War in Donbass. His most recent book In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine was published in December 2015.

Judah has also worked in 2013 as a regular columnist for Bloomberg.

Judah is considered an expert authority on Balkan politics. As a Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics in 2009 he developed the concept of the Yugosphere. He has described the Yugosphere as "a way of describing the renewal of thousands of broken bonds across the former state," a social and political phenomenon with a certain political application.

Judah's work on Africa has included a BBC Radio 4 documentary on Mouridism. His work has also touched on African sporting achievements with his 2008 book Bikila: Ethiopia’s Barefoot Runner shortlisted for the best new sportswriter category in the 2009 British Sports Book Awards.

He has celebrated the Jewish festival of Passover in both Baghdad during the American invasion of 2003 and Donetsk during the Russian invasion of 2014.

In 1997, based on his reporting of the Yugoslav Wars Judah criticized "academics imbued with a two dimensional view of the world" such as Francis Fukuyama for discussing the revolutions of 1989 as heralding the end of history.

He has written three books on the Balkans region, most notably The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia published by Yale University Press in 1997 and Kosovo: War And Revenge with the same publisher in 2002.

Based abroad as a foreign correspondent Judah lived in Bucharest from 1990 to 1991 where he covered the fall of communism for The Times and the Economist. He then moved to Belgrade where he covered the conflicts surrounding breakup of the former Yugoslavia. He moved back to London in 1995 but continues to travel frequently to the Balkans.

Tim Judah (born 31 March 1962) is a British reporter and political analyst for The Economist, and has written several books, mainly focusing on Serbia and Kosovo. He is considered an expert authority on the Balkans.

Tim Judah was born in London in 1962 and was raised in a family of Baghdadi Jewish descent whose tradition maintains they first came to Iraq from the ancient Kingdom of Judah at the time of the Babylonian Exile. His ancestors include Solomon Ma’tuk.

Regarding the Kosovo-Serbia question, Judah writes in his The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia in the section Kosovo: Land of Revenge that the reincorporation of Kosovo to Serbia in 1944 was "the equivalent of reincorporating a cancer into the Serbian body politic".