Robert F. Worth

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Robert F. Worth
Born (1965-09-29) September 29, 1965 (age 60)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
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, which won the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize. [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]

Worth is a recipient of the Washington DC based Transatlantic Leadership Network "Freedom of the Media" [10] Gold Medal award for Public Service, in 2023.

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Forsyth Worth". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors (Collection). Gale. 2016. ISBN   9780787639952 . Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "A RAGE FOR ORDER". Kirkus. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  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. 1 2 3 "ROBERT F. WORTH". macmillan. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW . Up Front: Robert F. Worth". The New York Times. Sep 9, 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  6. ↑ "Robert Worth". Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Columbia Journalism School. 28 March 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Robert F. Worth". New York Review of Books.
  8. ↑ "Robert Worth". Wilson Center. 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
  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.
  10. ↑ "2023 Freedom of the Media Conference and Award Ceremony". Transatlantic Leadership Network. Retrieved 2025-06-09.

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