Robert F. Worth

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Robert F. Worth
Born (1965-09-29) September 29, 1965 (age 58)
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SpouseAlice Clapman
ChildrenIsaac, Felix

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]

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References

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  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.
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  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.

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