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.
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In the Supreme Shrine
April 26, 2012
Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam
an exhibition at the British Museum, London, January 26–April 15, 2012
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Afghan Treasures
June 9, 2011
Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World
an exhibition at the British Museum, London,
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The War with the Taliban
October 28, 2010
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History
by Thomas Barfield
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Turkey at the Turning Point?
October 25, 2007
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The Uncontainable Kurds
March 1, 2007
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Defiant Iran
November 2, 2006
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
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Iran and the Bomb
April 27, 2006
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The Persian Difference
December 15, 2005
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
Catalog of the exhibition edited by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis
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New Man in Iran
August 11, 2005
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Left Out in Turkey
July 14, 2005
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Bush, Iran & the Bomb
February 24, 2005
The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America
by Kenneth M. Pollack
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Stalled in Iran
June 24, 2004
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Big Deal in Iran
February 26, 2004
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The Shiites Under Occupation
July 17, 2003
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‘The Loneliness of the Supreme Leader’
January 16, 2003
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Who Rules Iran?
June 27, 2002
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The Perils of Pakistan
November 15, 2001
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‘The Sick Man of Europe’
July 5, 2001
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Turkey’s Hidden Past
March 8, 2001
The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876å?1909 by Selim Deringil
AtatÌ?rk: 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
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The Struggle for Iran
December 16, 1999
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
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Justice and the Kurds
June 24, 1999
Turkey’s Kurdish Question
by Henri J. Barkey, by Graham E. Fuller
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Bombay at War
April 22, 1999
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Iraq: What Remains
December 21, 2011
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Should Afghanistan Exist?
October 7, 2010