Matt Beynon Rees is a Welsh novelist and former journalist. As a journalist, Rees covered the Middle East for over a decade.

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Matt Rees, (also known as Matt Beynon Rees, born 1967, Newport, Wales) is a Welsh novelist and former journalist. He is the author of The Palestine Quartet, a series of crime novels about Omar Yussef (character), a Palestinian sleuth, and of historical crime novels. He is the winner of a Crime Writers Association Dagger for his crime fiction. He lives in Jerusalem. Rees grew up in Newport, Cardiff, and South London, and studied at Wadham College, Oxford and the University of Maryland, College Park. He worked as a journalist in Washington and New York, before moving to the Middle East in 1996, where he was correspondent for The Scotsman, Newsweek, and Time (magazine).

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