After graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2010 Tom Finn moved to Sana’a, Yemen where he worked as an editor at the Yemen Times and later as a freelancer reporting for the Guardian and Reuters on the uprising that ended the 33-year rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh. In 2013 he reported from Egypt on the military’s overthrow of president Mohammed Morsi. A recipient of the Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award he has an MA in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies from New York University.