Jim Muir (born 3 June 1948) is a British journalist, currently serving as a Middle East correspondent for BBC News, based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Muir spent time embedded with the Kurdish Pesh Merga army as they defended themselves against the Iraqi central government.
At this time, Muir had little contact with the outside world: "I had to shout my despatches down a tenuous walkie-talkie link to offices in Damascus which recorded them and passed them on to London.
[1] Muir became a Middle East correspondent for BBC News based in Cairo, Egypt, between 1995 and 1999, in Tehran, Iran, between 1999 and 2004, and he returned to Beirut in 2004.
He has been a lead reporter on various stories, including the election of Mohammad Khatami as President of Iran, the Algerian Civil War, and most recently, the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive.