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.