Turi Munthe

Munthe studied Arabic and History at Oxford, Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and dropped out of a PhD at NYU in Anthropology of Religion[4] to start a (failed) biofuels business in Ghana.[5]

Munthe began his career with IBTauris, while writing for the British and US press on Middle East politics.[6][7] He published The Saddam Hussein Reader,[8] before covering the 2nd Gulf War as a freelance journalist[9]. He then launched The Beirut Review, a cultural magazine published with the Daily Star under Rami Khouri,[10] before returning to London as Head of the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute[11].

In late 2007, he founded Demotix with Jonathan Tepper.[12] Demotix built a network of 75,000 contributors around the world and exited to Corbis Corporation in 2012.[13] Munthe joined Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic’s North Base Media as a Venture Partner in 2015,[14] before founding Parlia in 2019. In 2015, he co-curated the Global Art Forum[15] with Sultan al-Qassemi and Shumon Basar.[16]

Munthe has lectured on new media all over the world, and has made regular news appearances.[17][18] He sits on the boards of openDemocracy, The New Humanitarian[19] and The Signals Network,[20] and has been a trustee of Index on Censorship and The Bureau for Investigative Journalism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[21]