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.

Tag: Gaza

War and Memory in the Middle East, and West London

February 1, 2025
FOR TWO WINTERS I LIVED IN GAZA, 2003 and 2004. It was the time of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising against Israel. It was cold. Gaza did not get much rain, but winter was wet: and the houses were made to lose heat, not retain it. For a...

Gaza, Israel, Peace and War in the Middle East

January 2, 2024
Over the Christmas and New Year holiday, I took the opportunity to reflect on the war in Gaza. Based on my experience of being there as a correspondent from 2002-2004, and on my subsequent research and writing, this new post is the result of that reflection. EVEN WHEN I...

GAZA: evacuation, and memories of 1948

October 14, 2023
A car passes ruined buildings and Israeli fortifications near Khan Younis, August 2002 © James Rodgers From 2002 to 2004, I was the BBC’s correspondent in Gaza: at the time, the only international journalist based in the territory. This post is an extract from my book ‘No Road Home:...