Robert F. Worth

Robert Forsyth Worth is an American journalist and former chief of The New York Times Beirut bureau.[1] He is the author of Rage for Order.[2]

Robert F. Worth
Born
New York City
NationalityUnited States
OccupationAuthor
Spouse(s)Alice Clapman
ChildrenIsaac, Felix

Life

Born and raised in Manhattan,[3] Worth is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has an M.A. and a Ph.D. (in English) from Princeton University.[4]

Worth became a New York Times reporter at the metropolitan desk in 2000. He was the Times correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006,[5] and their Beirut bureau chief from 2007 until 2011.[3] He has also contributed to the The New York Review of Books.[6]

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.[6][7] While there, he worked on "The Arab Revolts and their Legacy" project.

Private life

He is married to Alice Clapman, an attorney. The two have two sons, Isaac and Felix.

Awards and honors

He has been a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.[3]

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.[8]

References
  1. "A RAGE FOR ORDER". Kirkus. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. "ROBERT F. WORTH". macmillan. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. "SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW . Up Front: Robert F. Worth". Sep 9, 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  5. "Robert Worth". Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Columbia Journalism School. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  6. "Robert F. Worth". New York Review of Books.
  7. "Robert Worth". Wilson Center. 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  8. "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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