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Tomás Alcoverro (born 1940) is a Spanish journalist.

Trajectory
Middle East Correspondent of the Catalan daily La Vanguardia since 1970.

He has also been a correspondent in Paris and Athens. Led in Law and Journalism, he has collaborated since very young in Revista de Badalona, Conciencia, Destino, Insula, Correo Catalán and ABC. He was previously an assistant professor of international law at the University of Barcelona.

Since 1970 he has been living in Beirut, from where he has published more than seven thousand chronicles for the section of the International of La Vanguardia. The Lebanese wars between 1975 and 1990, the Lebanese war of 1982, the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, the war between Iraq and Iran, the wars against the regime of Saddam Hussein, the Palestinian intifades, the coup d'état, and the Islamic revolution in Iran have been in the first place. He was one of the few Western correspondents who remained in the western neighborhoods of Beirut during the time of terror. It has also been able to cover events related to truly important historical characters, such as the burial of Gamal Abdel Nasser or the arrival of the Ruhollah Jomeini magnet to Tehran.

Alcoverro, who has published about seven thousand chronicles, is the author of the book "El Dean," edited by Planet, in which it contains a selection of its articles. After that he published 'Espejismos de Oriente', which contains a large part of his work on this blog. With Pilar Rahola he has published "Trapped in Discord," a book of talks on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict also edited by Destino.

In the autumn of 2011, a documentary of the series "No fiction," dedicated to his work under the title "Tomás Alcoverro between East and West," was released on TV3, and in December 2011 he was awarded the Miquel Armengol Award by Rídio Molins de Rei. In December 2012, he was decorated at the Spanish embassy in Beirut with the Order of Civil Merit number.

On May 9, 2014, he was invited by Stanford University in his lecture cycle on "Literature and Journalism," where he spoke of "Correponal as a Writer." He has also delivered lectures in several Spanish cities and also in Middle East capitals such as Beirut, Damascus, Cairo and Amman.

In 2017 he gave the printing press' Why Damascus? ', about the Syrian War, of which four editions have already been published, and in 2018' La noria de Beirut '. In 2019 he published his first work in Catalan, "Un barceloní a Beirut."

Awards
Declared with the Order of Isabel la Católica (to its highest degree of commendator) and the Creu de Sant Jordi, it has won the Godó, Gaziel, Cyril Rodríguez, and Ortega and Gasset journalism awards, the latter shared with the other Spanish correspondents outstanding in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion. He has also received the Vázquez Montalbán International Journalism Award in