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.

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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