Ruth Pollard

Ruth Pollard

Ruth Pollard is the Middle East Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her job takes her throughout the Middle East and North Africa, reporting on the Arab revolutions from Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and on the conflict in Israel and Palestine.

An anti-Mursi protester chants slogans on a newly built barrier in front of soldiers guarding outside the Egyptian presidential palace in Cairo.

Egyptian protesters refuse to back down

Ruth Pollard CAIRO: A towering wall of concrete blocks separates Egypt's protesters from the Presidential Palace, but the opposition movement remains defiant, calling for another mass rally on Tuesday over the...

Jordan teetering on the cusp of change

This protest in Amman last Friday was organised by the Muslim Brotherhood and its political wing, the Islamic Action Front.

Ruth Pollard, Amman, Jordan Some call it a 'government by night', at once loathed and mocked for its habit of delivering bad news while the country sleeps. Jordanians say they never know what the mornings will bring.

Ruth Pollard

Slow burn on the road to revolution

People from the Islamic Action Front and other opposition parties demonstrate to demand political reforms, in Amman October 5, 2012. Thousands of Jordanian Islamist supporters marched on Friday in the largest demonstration since Arab Spring-inspired protests erupted last year, calling on King Abdullah to accelerate democratic reforms. The

Ruth Pollard Some call it a ''government by night'', at once loathed and mocked for its habit of delivering bad news while the country sleeps.

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