Lauren Keith is a freelance travel writer, editor and guidebook author whose work has been published in Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Atlas Obscura, Al Jazeera, Travel + Leisure, and elsewhere. She previously worked as Lonely Planet’s destination editor for the Middle East and North Africa, and she continues to travel the region widely. She’s written and edited more than 20 books about the Middle East and London, where she lived for a decade, before returning to the US at the end of 2021.
