Rosa Meneses has been a staff reporter at the Foreign Desk of the Spanish leading newspaper El Mundo since 1999.

She is expert in Middle East and Maghreb, covering war and post-conflict transitions, humanitarian crisis and social unrest, Human Rights, terrorism and political Islam issues for the last 20 years. Since the beginning of the Arab Uprising, in 2011, she has been covering the news writing specially from Tunisia, Libya and the war-torn Syria and Iraq.

As special envoy she usually covers important events in MENA countries as Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, the Gulf countries, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestinian territories or Turkey. She covered the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks in Paris, January 2015. As a war correspondent, she reported during the conflicts of Lebanon (2006), Libya (2011), Syria (2012) and Iraq war against Islamic State (2016). She is also an Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and she has previously served as Vice-president of Reporters Without Borders – International Council between 2018 and 2020.

Rosa Meneses

Basic information

Name
Rosa Meneses
Title
staff reporter
Expertise
Middle East and Maghreb, covering war and post-conflict transitions, humanitarian crisis and social unrest
Country
Spain
City
Madrid

Supported projects

The Migrant Farm Workers on the Frontline of Europe’s Climate Crisis

  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Exploitation
  • Migration

CAMPOBELLO DI MAZARA –  Bearing the brunt of deadly heat waves and extreme weather, migrant farm workers in Italy and Spain are on the frontline of Europe’s climate emergency. While the media has focused on the impact of rising temperatures on European citizens, hundreds of thousands of migrant labourers in Italy and Spain toil away in 45°C temperatures picking olives, harvesting tomatoes, planting seeds, and irrigating crops.