Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue (born 1971 in London) is a journalist who has worked on the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His work mostly chronicles developments in Iran and Turkey.
Biography
De Bellaigue obtained a BA and MA in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Fitzwilliam College.[1] 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. In 2007-2008, he was a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, where he began work on an anticipated biography of the Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh.
De Bellaigue is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He was formerly the Tehran correspondent for The Economist. He lives in London with his wife Bita Ghezelayagh, who is an Iranian architect, and two children. [2]
In 2012, de Bellaigue's book about Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mossadegh, Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup, was published.[3][4]
Armenian Genocide denial
He wrote "Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten People", an account of the three years he lived in Varto, after publishing an essay in the New York Review of Books about the "deportations and massacres" of Armenians in 1915. This was after he had been accused by Harvard Professor James R. Russell in engaging in Armenian Genocide denial[5] and scolded by editor Robert Silvers for acting as an "apologist" for the Turks.[6] <sup class="noprint Inline-Template "noprint Inline-Template"" style="white-space:nowrap;">[check quotation syntax]
Books
- Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup (2012)
- "Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten People" (2009)
- The Struggle for Iran (2007)
- In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran (2005)
Documentaries
- Iran and Britain (BBC Four, February 2009 )
External links
- Profile at NYRB
- Interview at AsiaSource
- Articles in Granta
- Articles in Harper's
- Articles in the London Review of Books
References
- ↑ "Cambridge in America Books". Cambridge in America. 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- ↑ "Diary". London Review of Books. 2001-07-05. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ↑ Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue – Review by James Buchan, The Guardian, 2 March 2012.
- ↑ The New York Review of Books, 16 August 2012, "A Crass and Consequential Error," reviewing the book "Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup" by Christopher de Bellaigue.
- ↑ Russell, James R. (9 August 2001). "Massacres of the Armenians". The New York Review of Books.
- ↑ A Look as the Snarled Past of Armenians and Turks," Dwight Garner, New York Times, March 3, 2010,