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]

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

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."

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Robert F. Worth on Twitter

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