Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971 and has worked as a journalist in the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children.

From the Review

October 25, 2007: Turkey at the Turning Point?

March 1, 2007: The Uncontainable Kurds

November 2, 2006: Defiant Iran

Confronting Iran: The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Crisis in the Middle East by Ali M. Ansari

Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic by Ray Takeyh

April 27, 2006: Iran and the Bomb

December 15, 2005: The Persian Difference

Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia Catalog of the exhibition edited by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis

August 11, 2005: New Man in Iran

July 14, 2005: Left Out in Turkey

February 24, 2005: Bush, Iran & the Bomb

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America by Kenneth M. Pollack

June 24, 2004: Stalled in Iran

February 26, 2004: Big Deal in Iran

July 17, 2003: The Shiites Under Occupation

January 16, 2003: 'The Loneliness of the Supreme Leader'

June 27, 2002: Who Rules Iran?

November 15, 2001: The Perils of Pakistan

July 5, 2001: 'The Sick Man of Europe' (letter)

March 8, 2001: Turkey's Hidden Past

The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909 by Selim Deringil

Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey by Andrew Mango

A Middle East Mosaic: Fragments of Life, Letters and History selected and presented by Bernard Lewis

December 16, 1999: The Struggle for Iran

Iran: Comment sortir d'une revolution religieuse by Farhad Khosrokhavar, by Olivier Roy

Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah by Baqer Moin

Being Modern in Iran by Fariba Adelkhah, Translated from the French by Jonathan Derrick

June 24, 1999: Justice and the Kurds

Turkey's Kurdish Question by Henri J. Barkey, by Graham E. Fuller

April 22, 1999: Bombay at War

From New York Review Books

The Struggle for Iran Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists? Bellaigue addresses these and other questions in this essential guide to a nation that is certain to be in the headlines for some time to come.