Badr Alqahtani

Badr Alqahtani is the Gulf affairs senior editor at Asharq Al-Awsat, the leading pan-Arab newspaper based in London. He began his career with the newspaper in 2008 as a correspondent in Saudi Arabia and moved to its London headquarters in 2013 as editor for Saudi affairs. Since 2016, he has led the newspaper’s editorial coverage of Yemen. Alqahtani has conducted high-level interviews and produced in-depth analyses on the Yemeni conflict and its regional implications. His reporting focuses on political dynamics in the Gulf, peace efforts, regional diplomacy, and Saudi-Yemeni relations. He has covered multiple negotiation rounds and published widely read investigative and analytical articles on the evolving conflict landscape.