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, University of London.

Tag: Israel

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:...

New podcast: Israel, Palestine, and the Oslo Accords

September 16, 2023
Graffiti on part of the barrier between Israel and the West Bank, June 2014. Photo © James Rodgers This week, my City, University of London colleague Professor Amnon Aran and I have released the first episode of our three part podcast series, Inside the Oslo Accords. We are making...

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

February 20, 2021
‘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...