A Midwesterner in the Mideast, Taylor Luck tells personal stories on a global scale. Currently a Middle East correspondent at The Christian Science Monitor, Taylor's career spans 17 years across the Arab world. His narrative journalism blends reporting, analysis and storytelling to breathe humanity into the geopolitical trends shaping the region. Taylor tackles some of the biggest challenges of our day: climate change, polarization, migration, inequality, democracy and war. He reports “from” communities rather than “on” them, to elevate voices policymakers and media outlets often overlook. From Morocco to Oman and everywhere in between, Taylor writes where the personal and the political meet in the Middle East.

Prior to becoming The Christian Science Monitor’s Middle East correspondent in 2014, Taylor served as a special correspondent for The Washington Post, covering Jordan, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the reign of ISIS. He also covered the Arab Spring, Jordan and the Arab Gulf as a correspondent at the German Press Agency (dpa). As a freelancer, his bylines appeared in several publications including The Guardian and The National. Taylor began his career in 2007 as a local news editor and reporter at The Jordan Times, Jordan’s English-language daily newspaper. Based in Amman, Jordan, he has lived in the Arab world for most of his adult life.

As a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center, Taylor also writes forward-looking analyses on emerging dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa from climate to security. The Chicago native shares his time between his adopted home of Amman, Jordan, the Arab Gulf, Chicago, Washington Dc and Boston.

Taylor is currently working on two books in different stages of production: a narrative non-fiction book on Jordan, tribes and belonging; and a second book on the Israel-Gaza war.