Robert F. Worth

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]

Robert F. Worth
Born	(1965-09-29) September 29, 1965 (age 59) New York City
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author
Spouse	Alice Clapman
Children	Isaac, Felix

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.