Christopher de Bellaigue
Christopher de Bellaigue (born 1971 in London) is a journalist who has worked on the Middle East and South Asia since 1994. His work mostly chronicles developments in Iran and Turkey.
De Bellaigue studied Persian and Indian Studies at Cambridge. His first book, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. De Bellaigue is the Tehran correspondent for The Economist and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, Granta, and the New Yorker, among other publications. He lives in Tehran with his wife and two children. He converted to Iranian Shiism sect of Islam in the early part of this decade.
Books
- The Struggle for Iran (2007)
- In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran (2005)