Multi-lingual writers across the Middle East

Qualifications in Arabic and Turkish, as well as French, Spanish and Italian, have led Tristan and Kathryn on travel writing commissions to Middle East nations including Egypt, Pakistan, Tunisia, Oman and Iran.

They used to live in Istanbul where they wrote the Rough Guide, National Geographic and Time Out guides to the city. Recently published travel writing stories from Georgia, Dubai, Turkey, Morocco and Azerbaijan are below.

World's 50 Best, Aug 2021 Eating up Izmir on Turkey's Aegean Coast	AramcoWorld, Dec 2020 Jute: Bangladesh's golden fibre	AramcoWorld, Sep 2019 Egypt's electronic music revolution
World's 50 Best, Aug 2021 Bodrum: World's 50 best food guide	Food + Travel, May 2019 Eating in Izmir	Sunday Times Travel, Feb 2019 Georgia on my mind
Sunday Times Travel, Mar 2019 Total Dubai	Telegraph, Dec 2018 Morocco's new Marrakech Express	Etihad Atlas, Oct 2018 Baku's oil baron palaces
Delicious, Sep 2018 Eating Georgia, from toe to tail	South China Morning Post, Sep 2018 Georgia's cradle of viticulture	AramcoWorld, Dec 2017 Cinema city in the Moroccan Sahara
easyjet, Oct 2017 Yves Saint-Laurent in Marrakech	Etihad Aspire, Feb 2017 Inside Yves Saint-Laurent's secret garden	easyJet, April 2017 Marrakech's 21st century steambaths
Jazeera, August 2016 Boho on the Golden Horn	Sunday Times Travel, April 2016 Istanbul Insider's Weekend	Jazeera, March 2016 Istanbul's hammam revival
Jazeera, December 2015 The female football fans of Istanbul	Brownbook, November 2015 Dracunculus vulgaris, Anatolia's erotic lilly	The Guardian, August 2015 Top 10 Istanbul sights
Sunday Times, June 2015 Lazy weekend in Istanbul	The Guardian, June 2015 Top 10 hotels in Istanbul	Jazeera, May 2015 Istanbul, fashion capital of the East
Brownbook, February 2015 Architectural study of the Pakistan Embassy in Ankara	Royal Jordanian, March 2015 Istanbul Fashion Week	South China Morning Post A history of Ottoman cuisine
Selvedge, Spring 2015 The Anatolian textile trail	Thomas Cook, Spring 2015 A taste of the Turkish Riviera	JetAway, February 2015 Top Ten Turkish Beaches
Korean Air, March 2015 Empires of the Anatolian East	Independent, January 2015 Istanbul's hamams scrub up well	Jazeera, December 2014 Istanbul on film
Qatar Airways, February 2015 Istanbul: my favourite street	Condé Nast, January 2015 Istanbul's hip hammams	Jazeera, October 2014 Arzu Tekir: the woman unjamming Istanbul
Etihad, October 2014 Solving Turkey's traffic problems	Condé Nast, October 2014 Hipster hangout: Alaçati	The Times, September 2014 Alaçati: Turkey's answer to St Tropez
Brownbook, Summer 2014 Anatolian shaving ceremonies	easyJet, August 2014 Slow Food comes to Turkey	The Guardian, May 2014 Top 10 family-friendly apartments and villas in Turkey
Qatar Airways, May 2014 Cosmopolitan Istanbul: A century apart	The Guardian, April 2014 Top 10 family-friendly hotels in Turkey	The Times, April 2014 The secret beaches of Turkey
Brownbook, February 2014 Trans Asia Express to Lake Van	Wizz Air, December 2013 Insider's Istanbul	Brownbook, November 2013 Han Tumertekin: Istanbul's man of the moment
Brownbook, May 2013 Inside Istanbul's Silahtaraga Power Station	Korean Air, February 2013 Istanbul's fishy tales	JetAway, November 2012 Turkey's other side of paraside
easyJet, October 2012 The five stars of Istanbul	Gulf Life, February 2012 Ara Guler, the Eye of Istanbul	Sunday Times, March 2012 The way to Oman's heart
Brownbook, December 2011 Besiktas Fish Market redesign	easyJet, October 2011 Art beat on the Bosphorus	Sunday Times, August 2011 Istanbul four ways in four days
Brownbook, August 2011 Banané: Art incubators of Istanbul	Real Travel, July 2011 Learning to sail on Turkey's Aegean Coast	The Guardian, July 2010 Free diving in Turkey
Brownbook, June 2011 Istanbul's contemporary mosque architecture	Independent, September 2009 Bozcaada, the Greek island without the Euro	The Guardian, July 2009 Great Eastern Lines to Turkey's Anatolian interior