Robert_F._Worth

Robert F. Worth

Robert F. Worth

American journalist and former chief of The New York Times Beirut bureau

Robert Forsyth Worth (born September 29, 1965)[1] is an American author and journalist. He was the former chief of The New York Times Beirut bureau.[2] He is the author of Rage for Order.[3]

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Life

Worth was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City.[4] He has a Ph.D. (in English) from Princeton University.[5]

Worth became a New York Times reporter at the metropolitan desk in 2000. He was the Times correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006,[6] and their Beirut bureau chief from 2007 until 2011.[4] He has also contributed to The New York Review of Books.[7]

From 2014 to 2015, he was a public policy fellow in the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars while writing Rage for Order.[7][8] While there, he worked on "The Arab Revolts and their Legacy" project.

Awards and honors

He has been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.[4]

He won a silver medal in the 2017 Arthur Ross Book Award given by the Council on Foreign Relations for his book A Rage for Order.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Robert Forsyth Worth". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2016. ISBN 9780787639952. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  2. [2]
    "A RAGE FOR ORDER". Kirkus. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  3. [3]
    Worth, Robert F. (2016). A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS. Pan Macmillan. p. 82. ISBN 9780374710712. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  4. [4]
    "ROBERT F. WORTH". macmillan. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  5. [5]
    "SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW . Up Front: Robert F. Worth". Sep 9, 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  6. [6]
    "Robert Worth". Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  7. [7]
    "Robert F. Worth". New York Review of Books.
  8. [8]
    "Robert Worth". Wilson Center. 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  9. [9]
    "John Pomfret's "The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom" Wins 2017 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award". Council on Foreign Relations. November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 23, 2017.

Bibliography

  • Robert F. Worth, "Syria's Lost Chance" (review of Elizabeth F. Thompson, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: the Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of Its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance, Atlantic Monthly, 466 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVII, no. 15 (8 October 2020), pp. 31–33. Worth writes (p. 33): "Perhaps things would have been different if the Syrians had been left to govern themselves a century ago."


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