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

Life

Born and raised in Manhattan, Worth has an M.A. and a Ph.D. (in English) from Princeton University. Worth became a '' New York Times'' reporter at the metropolitan desk in 2000. He was the ''Times'' correspondent in Baghdad from 2003 to 2006, and their Beirut bureau chief from 2007 until 2011. He has also contributed to '' The New York Review of Books''. 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''. 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 The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...

. He won a silver medal in the 2017

Arthur Ross Book Award The Arthur Ross Book Award is a politics-related literary award. History and administration It was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross, an American businessman and philanthropist, for the purpose of recognizing books that make an outstanding cont ...

given by the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, mi ...

for his book ''A Rage for Order''.

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 Syrians ( ar, سُورِيُّون, ''Sūriyyīn'') are an Eastern Mediterranean ethnic group indigenous to the Levant. They share common Levantine Semitic roots. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend of both indi ...

had been left to govern themselves a century ago."

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