Matt Williams


A journalist with seven years of experience working on humanitarian crises and conflicts around the world. I am currently a social editor and journalist at Financial Times.

I have written for The Economist and Byline Times on various human rights issues and humanitarian crises including the war in Ukraine, Gaza, Afghanistan, and the civil war in Myanmar. I am also a specialist on open-source investigations with a recent focus on Ukraine’s war and the conflict in Tigray. I was previously at The New Humanitarian, The Telegraph, Centre for Information Resilience and worked at Amnesty International in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

I was a social editor in The Economist’s award-winning audience team and have written about filtration camps and enforced disappearences in the Russo-Ukrainian War and Gaza. I also published a byline for The Sunday Times Magazine on a war veteran’s experiences in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. During my time at the University of Nottingham, I edited Impact Magazine’s sports section. Read more in my portfolio.


THE MIDDLE EAST



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THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA



REST OF THE WORLD



Photography


I Kill You For Nothing (2021)

After a decade of political turmoil, war and widespread atrocities in the 1990s, the Balkans have slipped from the headlines and communities have been attempting to rebuild and cope with the legacy of conflict. Two decades after wars in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Serbia, I travelled the region in 2018 and 2019 photographing life in the post-conflict Balkans, European conflicts which remain relevant today as populism and nationalism grip the Western world. → See more

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Fractured Levantine (2020)

In 2016 and 2017, I travelled to Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and occupied Syria where I documented life and conflict, ever-lurking beneath the surface, in a small part of the Middle East. → See more

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