Alex Milan Durie is an independent multimedia journalist, writer, and photographer currently based in Beirut. He covers stories that touch on memory, belonging, culture, and the human consequences of conflict and climate change. He works regularly with The Guardian, Al Jazeera, TIME Magazine, The Financial Times, WIRED, GQ Magazine, Rolling Stone, Middle East Eye, and more. Raised between London and the South of France, Alex is of Vietnamese, Italian, and Swedish heritage, but feels most at home near the Mediterranean Sea.