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Justin Marozzi

In Afghanistan, Trump and the Taleban want the same thing – Americans out

Justin Marozzi 24 August 2019 9:00 am

‘Incoming! Incoming! Incoming!’ As morning alarms go, this one leaves a lot to be desired. Normally I wake up to…

Is one of history’s most rousing speeches apocryphal?

Justin Marozzi 15 June 2019 9:00 am

As rousing death-and-glory speeches go, it is one of the best. With a besieging Roman army only hours from storming…

The day Turkish democracy died

Justin Marozzi 25 May 2019 9:00 am

‘It’s official. Turkey is a banana republic!’ My friend Mustapha, a serial entrepreneur, sends me a flurry of doom-laden WhatsApp…

Bring me my arrow of desire: the original Italian film poster for Pasolini’s 1974 Il Fiore delle Mille e Una Notte

How film fell for caliphs and slave girls

Justin Marozzi 11 May 2019 9:00 am

Justin Marozzi on film’s love affair with the Arabian Nights

Why do we love The Archers, when all the characters are loathsome?

Justin Marozzi 23 March 2019 9:00 am

Almost every single character in The Archers is insufferable

Levison Wood. Credit Simon Buxton

Boys’ Own adventures in the war-torn Middle East

Justin Marozzi 10 November 2018 9:00 am

Ask most people whether they fancy a four-month, 5,000-mile trek across the Middle East and they might conclude you need…

Bactrian camels in the Khongoryn Els sand dunes of the Gobi Desert

The Empty Quarter is a great refuge for lonely hearts

Justin Marozzi 2 June 2018 9:00 am

When William Atkins and his girlfriend parted, he set off to explore eight of the world’s fieriest deserts, from Oman to the Taklamakan

Who knew that Arabic has more than 30 words for wine?

Justin Marozzi 31 March 2018 9:00 am

You know you’re in good hands when the dedication reads: ‘To the writers, drinkers and freethinkers of the Arab and…

Did the fabled Phoenicians ever actually exist?

Justin Marozzi 13 January 2018 9:00 am

So the Phoenicians never existed. Herodotus, that unreliable old fibber, made it all up in the Histories. Is this really…

Originals: Jack Dempsey, left, in his 1919 title fight

Boxer shorts

Justin Marozzi 19 August 2017 9:00 am

Chaps, be honest. Have you achieved nether-region nirvana? Twenty years ago I had reached the summit of underwear style and…

Part of a Quran originally bought in Fez in 1223, and removed from the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu for safety in 2012

Whispers of scandal over the rescue of Timbuktu’s manuscripts

Justin Marozzi 20 May 2017 9:00 am

Timbuktu. Can any other three syllables evoke such a thrill? For travellers, explorers and historians of Africa, the ancient desert…

We all love a winner: T.E. Lawrence

Will the tide ever turn on Lawrence of Arabia?

Justin Marozzi 18 March 2017 9:00 am

The centenary of General Allenby’s capture of Jerusalem falls later this year. On 11 December 1917, the commander-in-chief of Britain’s…

Muslim magic – Islam has always dabbled in the occult

Justin Marozzi 15 October 2016 9:00 am

Islam has always dabbled in the dark arts, says Justin Marozzi

Portrait of a youthful Patrick Leigh Fermor in Cretan costume, by Adrian Daintrey (oil on canvas), Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

Dashing for the book: A lifetime of letters from Paddy Leigh Fermor

Justin Marozzi 1 October 2016 9:00 am

Justin Marozzi says the letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor are a 20th-century treasure-trove and a feast for admirers of the great man

The Siege of Jerusalem, 1099: Christian knights hacked down thousands of Jews and Muslims in the name of God

Why the crusades ended – and jihad goes on

Justin Marozzi 9 July 2016 9:00 am

First a confession. Like many modern British readers, I have contracted a severe case of Jihad Overload Syndrome. Symptoms of…

T.E. Lawrence: from young romantic to shame-shattered veteran

Justin Marozzi 16 April 2016 9:00 am

T.E. Lawrence is seen as a ‘metaphor for imperialism, violence and betrayal’ in the Middle East. But woeful Arab leadership has also been to blame for the region’s problems, says Justin Marozzi

Left: The main gate to the mighty citadel has withstood centuries of invasion. Now much scarred, it presides over a bombed-out city, including the wrecked medieval souq (above), until recently the world’s largest and most vibrant covered historic market and Unesco world heritage site

Syria's Stalingrad: how Aleppo slipped from tolerance to terrorism

Justin Marozzi 5 March 2016 9:00 am

Justin Marozzi on the bitter irony of Aleppo’s ancient motto

Paradise — with a strong undercurrent of violence

Sri Lanka: emerald paradise with a dark interior

Justin Marozzi 29 October 2015 9:00 am

For a genre that is frequently dismissed as dead, travel writing is proving a remarkably stubborn survivor. If anything, this…

Let's fight terror - by holidaying in gorgeous, welcoming Tunisia

Justin Marozzi 4 July 2015 9:00 am

It needs – and deserves – British visitors more than ever

Justin Marozzi’s diary: Lunch with Saddam’s hangman, and a democratic revolution in Kensington

Justin Marozzi 25 April 2015 9:00 am

Lunch with the man who hanged Saddam. My irrepressible old Baghdad friend Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Ealing neurologist turned Iraqi national security…

An Armenian orphan in 1915. Hundreds of thousands of Christian women and children who survived the genocide suffered forced conversion to Islam

At last: a calm, definitive account of the Armenian genocide

Justin Marozzi 18 April 2015 9:00 am

The atrocities suffered by an estimated one million Armenians in 1915 have been largely ignored by historians and officially denied by the Turks. It’s a centenary we can’t afford to neglect, says Justin Marozzi

An unholy cross between Big Ben and Las Vegas, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower stands on an estimated 400 sites of cultural and historical importance

Mecca: from shrine to shopping mall

Justin Marozzi 6 December 2014 9:00 am

The Saudis, official custodians of Islam’s holiest place, have bulldozed its historical sites, perverted its religion and turned Mecca into one vast shopping mall, says Justin Marozzi

The shameful truth: Britain lets in far too few refugees

Justin Marozzi 8 November 2014 9:00 am

Britain’s appalling record on refugees is a moral failure, and national disgrace

Is it boring being the god of the sea?

Justin Marozzi 18 October 2014 9:00 am

Writing to a god seems a presumptuous thing. Who are we, feeble mortal creatures whose lives pass in the blink…

I’ve spent years in war zones. And the most terrifying moment of my life just happened in Norfolk

Justin Marozzi 11 October 2014 9:00 am

I’ve spent years in conflict zones. But the scariest thing that’s happened to me involved two bull terriers on a Norfolk beach

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