ABOUT

This is a site about the books and other writing by James Rodgers, author of Assignment Moscow: Reporting on Russia From Lenin to Putin (new edition 2023; first published July 2020); Headlines from the Holy Land (2015 and 2017); No Road Home: Fighting for Land and Faith in Gaza (2013); Reporting Conflict (2012). My work looks at how stories of international affairs, especially armed conflict, are told to the world.

BIOGRAPHY

I am an author and journalist. During two decades of covering international news, I reported on the end of the Soviet Union; the wars in Chechnya; the coming to power of Vladimir Putin; 9/11; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the 2003 war in Iraq; Russia’s war with Georgia in 2008. I completed correspondent postings for the BBC in Moscow, Brussels, and Gaza. I now teach in the Journalism Department at City St George’s, University of London.

The author in Berlin, February 2023. Photo © Kevin Cummins

My latest work on the Middle East, in ‘History Today’

Posted On February 20, 2021
The Damascus Gate into the Old City of Jerusalem, September 2011 (Photo: James Rodgers)

‘They are not a historic turning point in Arab-Israeli relations because they do not directly address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’

In the context of the Abraham Accords, I wrote a new, short, piece on Israel-Palestine in the February issue of History Today. I was flattered to to appear in print alongside Avi Shlaim; Fawaz Gerges; Ilan Pappe–scholars whose work I had read as part of my preparation for my work in Gaza as the BBC correspondent from 2002-2004. You can read the piece here A Historic Turning Point in Arab-Israeli Relations? | History Today

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