Justin Marozzi (born 1970) is an English

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, historian and travel writer.

Biography

Marozzi studied at

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, where he gained a Starred Double First in History in 1993. He has also earned degrees in broadcast journalism from

Cardiff University Cardiff University () is a public research university in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed Unive ...

and in international relations from the

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as a Thouron Scholar. As a journalist, he worked for the

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, the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He was also a contributing editor of The Spectator. Marozzi's publications include: ''South from Barbary'' (2001), an account of his explorations through the Libyan Sahara; ''Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World'' (2004) which was a highly regarded biography of the Mongol conqueror Timur and was listed as a '' Sunday Telegraph'' Book of the Year; ''Faces of Exploration'' (2006), an account of famous explorers, was followed by ''The Man Who Invented History: Travels with

Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...

'' (2008), a

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of the world's first historian; ''

Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...

: City of Peace, City of Blood'' (2014); ''Islamic Empires - Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization'' (2019), and; ''A Thousand Golden Cities: 2,500 Years of Writing from

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

and its People'' (2023). Marozzi was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Awards and honors

*2015 Ondaatje Prize for ''Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood''

References

External links

Justin Marozzi's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marrozzi, Justin English historians English people of Italian descent 1970 births Living people